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Another way to look at it is that the best minds are thinking about how to optimise capitalism. They are doing that and in effect we are all getting a better m
by nextweek2 13y ago
Another way to look at it is that the best minds are thinking about how to optimise capitalism.
They are doing that and in effect we are all getting a better more efficient society. Plus the best minds aren't working on world peace because people vote for people with the best hair to do that job.
- nitrogen 13y agoI struggle to believe that our current models of advertising can in any way lead to overall societal efficiency. We can do much better.
- 6d0debc071 13y agoThat only really makes sense if you think that ads are providing information that's relevant to people's best interests and is going to be fed into fairly rational decision making, rather than exploiting cognitive biases as an attack vector.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoAnother way to look at it is that the best minds are thinking about how to optimise capitalism. If this is true, we should all be mortally terrified and running around like headless chickens, screaming to the heavens to save us.