history,ok through
there are often times in history
where we discovered that
something is morally repugnant
that the whole economy is based
on it.
so it used to be slavery.
when the british empire wanted
to get out of slavery, they had
to give up 2% of their gdp every
year for 60 years.
now the whole tech economy is
propped up by advertising.
it has served us really well and
created wealth.
there's a lot of great things
that came from it, but when the
-- if i'mtoo high
facebook and i have one newsfeed
that has filter bubbles that
confirms your existing beliefs,
and i have another feed that
doesn't confirm your beliefs, if
the one that doesn't confirm
your beliefs loses engagement,
everyone else will swoop in.