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Well put. I do not agree with the clumsy approach taken by countries like Australia, UK, and Texas, but I absolutely consider youtube and social media problems responsible for the tsunami of lowest-common-denominator slop. Free market/user choice idealists need to face up to the fact that slops is bad and lowers standards rather than elevating them, because the economic incentives tilt in favor of low quality, sensationalism, and so on. To some extent that's a reflection of the viewing/clicking population, but that doesn't mean that you should always just give people more of what they want. We tried that with high fructose corn syrup and the result is whole populations ravaged by obesity and diabetes.


To state it plainly:

We humans, when given enticing bad choices, will often give in to the enticement.

That universal tendency can be overcome by strict application of willpower, which can have long-term benefits.

It is possible to exploit this tendency to make money. And so, by recursive application of this principle, we arrive at 2025.




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