Category: Social Control

Social Control May 7, 2023

Asset-Manager Firms Are Taking Over the Social Infrastructure on Which We All Depend

When Governments do less and less?

In an asset-manager society, firms like Blackstone, Brookfield, and Macquarie act as the shadowy overseers of wealth funds that find a home in the assets that sustain human life, such as housing, energy, and transportation. The questions of how this came about, what the implications are, and who the ultimate winners and losers might be are all explored in brilliant clarity by Brett Christophers in Our Lives in Their Portfolios: How Asset Managers Own the World.

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Do social media algorithms erode our ability to make decisions freely? The jury is out

Social media algorithms, artificial intelligence, and our own genetics are among the factors influencing us beyond our awareness. This raises an ancient question: do we have control over our own lives? This article is part of The Conversation’s series on the science of free will.
Do social media algorithms erode our ability to make decisions freely? The jury is out

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‘It makes you want to throw your phone in the bin’: The film turning teens off social media

Neisha Biviano and Mia Quinn, 15, changed their attitudes to social media after viewing the documentary The Social Dilemma, which Mia also had her family watch.

Almost instantaneously, the bombshell Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, changed her relationship with the platforms upon which her generation grew up.
‘It makes you want to throw your phone in the bin’: The film turning teens off social media

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