Twitter and co are shaping your world ‘I didn’t do it to make more money. I did it to try to help humanity.” Elon Musk … The tunes you hum, books you read, rows you haveRead more
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Why We Can’t Have Nice Things—Like Socialism—in the United States
Donald Trump has had the urge to crush many things, including the last election. So I must admit I found it eerily amusing that, when … Why We Can’t Have Nice Things—Like Socialism—in the United StatesRead more
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Facebook and Google for “downgrading” humanity
Tristan Harris https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/10/23/center-of-humane-techs-tristan-harris-attacks-facebook-and-google.html https://humanetech.com/cnbc-social-media-is-downgrading-humanity/
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1966 Children about future
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwHib5wYEj8&rel=0&feature=relmfu] war, atom bomb, sea level rise, climate, boring, automation, job, computers.
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Consumer Protection Progress and Regress – From the Sixties to Now
I’m often asked whether consumers are better or worse off since the modern consumer movement took hold in the nineteen sixties. Let’s look at the … Consumer Protection Progress and Regress – From the Sixties to NowRead more
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Billionaires Are Not Morally Qualified To Shape Human Civilization
Human civilization is being engineered in myriad ways by an unfathomably wealthy class who are so emotionally and psychologically stunted that they refuse to end … Billionaires Are Not Morally Qualified To Shape Human CivilizationRead more
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No, We’re Not All in This Together
Media outlets keep telling us that we’re all together in this pandemic. But we’re not. The super-rich have separated themselves from the rest of us, … No, We’re Not All in This TogetherRead more
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We Need a Collective Response to the Collective Dilemma of Coronavirus
I write this in the midst of the coronavirus crisis in New York City. It is a difficult time to know exactly how to respond … We Need a Collective Response to the Collective Dilemma of CoronavirusRead more
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The New Puritans
“It was no great distance, in those days, from the prison-door to the market-place. Measured by the prisoner’s experience, however, it might be reckoned a … The New PuritansRead more