Readit NewsLol. Where else are you going to go? YouTube is a de facto monopoly when it comes to self-published shortform videos.
The consequences of the "everything-is-free" Web 2.0 internet has created some very arrogant consumers that won't even pay $10/mo. to support content creators.
Psychology is stuck in a weird place. Most cultural knowledge of "self-esteem" comes from self-help crap, when it should be coming from psychologists. What if we lived in a world where everyone knows how to recognize low self-esteem, how to interact with insecure people effectively, and how to help them build their self-esteem durably, as opposed to these proto-team-building-exercises they're proposing here? The traditional thinking is that you fix emotional issues through therapy sessions; but if we changed the culture to become more emotions-aware, people would know how to help each other and themselves far better. The fact that so many pop-psychology books sell so much, is proof that there's a deep need for this.
Some studies say 70-80% of people have some degree of low self-esteem. Depending on the study, 50-70% of the whole population have an attachment disorder, and literally lack the ability to form healthy emotional bonds. You don't fix that through culture. "Instructors could create activities in which each student becomes an 'expert' on a different topic"? Come on man. They have to let go of the old DSM-5 model of "10-15 of the population is crazy, everyone else is perfectly fine". Psychologists have a far bigger role to play in society than they currently do.
Fixing psychological and emotional problems through cultural change just doesn't solve anything. Fix the root cause. You would literally fix both the low self-esteem that inhibits people from asking questions, and the bullying that results from being seen as "dumb".
uhm, so much of our culture and education comes directly from schools and media, not from our parents.
in fact, it's likely that most people learn not to ask question in a school-setting. hence we're (hoping that not anymore) in a culture that causes such low-self esteem by means of its educational institutions.
interactions with institutionally defined authority figures whose job is to teach (i.e. to parent you without the emotional bonds of your real parents) are a root cause.
the root cause is this culture which induces such problems with its relentless hirearchical control (authority) logic.
to better understand the times, of course...
If you get to be a small businessman due to your control over your own body, what is an employee again? Last I heard, employees also had control over their own bodies.
What is an employee?
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how to fix this "most-open unit of computing" will depend on "what" do you think this 'unit of compute' even means, which of course depends on who you are and what do you do with 'units of compute' (buy? sell? resell? use up? build? oversee??)
consumers of the opportunity to labor?
This is how people that knew what are doing were using them, but the generalization of computing didn't include generalization of this knowledge so the side effects have been the opposite of this kind of symbiosis. We are condemned to do the drudgery to fulfill goals set by algorithms.
The author posits a time window for this symbiosis, maybe the time is up.
I guess that's fine if all your life is work.
now the national barriers exist online too, in addition to the pre-existing language barriers. i.e. the information technology has been deployed as an extra tool to apply national-linguistic barriers between peoples.
I think this is not about protecting the rights to data and privacy of american indivudal citizens...the other kind of american citizen, the american corporation, on the other hand, stands to gain a lot from this.
> To provide consumers with foundational data privacy rights, create strong oversight mechanisms, and establish meaningful enforcement.
ah, so corporations can well-foundedly and meaningfully consume the data of 'consumers' (an euphenism for fuel) in a way such that the historic shadow suckers of everything's energy (banks) can continue to partake on the sucking down of everybody's data/information (with real time measurements, which is a novelty in this ancient system build around trade, commerce, insurance, and power-authority concentration).