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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.
A beautiful song expressing deep truths.
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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 structure of our economic system today 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 of economic and legal frameworks rooted in the psychological self (a term I use for the dysfunctional psychological identities we consciously and unconsciously form).
This video is long, but it’s one of those rare occasions when watching the full C-SPAN testimony matters. As senators repeatedly drift toward political posturing and simple good-versus-evil narratives, Frances Haugen keeps pulling the conversation back toward the harder truth: these technologies are not inherently good or evil. The real problem is the conflict between the outcomes the public may want and the outcomes private companies are structurally incentivized—and often legally obligated—to prioritize.