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Harvard Business Review • Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy
Anu Atluru • Thoughts For Sale
a culture that places limitless value on attention and money, while creating information tools that seem designed to turn every person’s screwup into an opportunity for public shaming, mockery, abandonment, and humiliation on a scale previously unimaginable.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
I’ve been thinking about five intersecting problems: first, how the internet is built to distend our sense of identity; second, how it encourages us to overvalue our opinions; third, how it maximizes our sense of opposition; fourth, how it cheapens our understanding of solidarity; and, finally, how it destroys our sense of scale.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
With the introduction of $200+ per month plans, we're already starting to see a rift between those who have resources and those who don't, a rapid reversion to existing social norms, the betrayal of the promise of the democratization of information and access to knowledge that AI promised. Or were promised by the companies developing it.