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I added this ☝️ video, in part, because I work as an associate in an Amazon warehouse. It doesn’t represent my viewpoint, but it definitely contains genuine journalistic value. I’ve had first-hand experience with what happens from the inside, and I think it’s important for people to understand the intricacies of the company. Amazon is only doing what systems of technology, economics, politics, and culture have instructed it to do. The company is playing by the rules, following built-in incentives, and winning—revealing systematic inner and outer dysfunctions humanity faces.
The Venus Project outlines systems thinking pretty well, but this TED talk breaks it down with greater speed and simplicity.
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While the insights here are invaluable and quitting your social media accounts will do a great deal of good on an individual level, I think the fundamental problem of how our economic system is structured is the root cause of everything he’s bringing up. Subscription-based business models can be a solution, but it appears this would only be a patchwork solution to a systemic problem rooted in psychological egoism.
This video is long, but it’s one of the rare occasions when watching C-SPAN really is necessary to fully appreciate the complexities of the scenario. When members of the senate default to political posturing, Frances Haugen continuously redirects them to move away from a false good-versus-evil narrative toward the nuances of how this algorithmic technology has been unintentionally weaponized.