> My take: echo chambers have become mainstream (ironically, aided by technology).
Technology can scale up small conveniences into major economic and quality of life wins.
But when it's tolerated, technology also ramps up seemingly small conflicts of interest into economic and society-degrading monsters.
Our legal intolerance for conflicts of interest as business models needs to go up a lot. No amount of strongly worded letters, uncomfortable senate interviews, or unplug-the-system theater, are going to discourage billionaires farming people's behavior, attention and psychology from continuing to farm people's behavior, attention and psychology.
Technology can scale up small conveniences into major economic and quality of life wins.
But when it's tolerated, technology also ramps up seemingly small conflicts of interest into economic and society-degrading monsters.
Our legal intolerance for conflicts of interest as business models needs to go up a lot. No amount of strongly worded letters, uncomfortable senate interviews, or unplug-the-system theater, are going to discourage billionaires farming people's behavior, attention and psychology from continuing to farm people's behavior, attention and psychology.