Future of Trust
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Future of Trust
Finite games over infinite extraction. People are exhausted by platforms that treat them as renewable resources. There’s a reason why people are willing to pay for newsletters, for Substacks and Discord communities, for anything that feels like a bounded exchange rather than an infinite scroll designed to keep them producing value. Substack
... See moreJasmine Bina • Repricing the Human Experience
BBC World Service - The Compass, Money, Money, Money, Money, money, money: Trust
Rachel Botsmanbbc.co.uk
Ambient extraction is different. It’s a level of vulnerability and theft that registers more emotionally and psychically than it does economically, and that will tip the scales of culture and business.
And if you don’t feel it yet, you may be on the benefitting side of the asymmetry.
Jasmine Bina • Repricing the Human Experience
Without trust in the decision-maker, trust in the process breaks down, and the only important question becomes, “Who decides?”
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
Trust collapses at scale, but it doesn’t get rebuilt at scale. It comes back in small circles and places where the asymmetry can’t take hold. The ambient extraction economy doesn’t need to take over the world for this to matter, it just needs to drive enough people into withdrawal that your old playbooks stop working.