Economics Of The Election

[wetwillie]

These TV’s and Video Games will rot people’s brains and it will only get worse!

[CNS]

These TV’s and Video Games will rot people’s brains and it will only get worse!

Diff is that there are studies(huge one just came out this week) that show that is not true.  On the social media side, there are a lot of data that seem to show it is true with social media.  I mean, parents should parent and all, but kids especially are seemingly being hit hard by it.  On top of that there are studies showing that it is neg effecting our attention spans, how we absorb info, how much we can absorb, etc.  Its not good.

I am not in the burn it all down camp, but we def need regulation put together by people who understand the issue and it's challenges as well as the nuance involved and the cascading effects they could have on non-social media internet.  The problem is that, some likely due to the above info problems, nuance is not our thing.

[steve dave]

The Social Dilemma, not even once


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[ChiComCat]

These TV’s and Video Games will rot people’s brains and it will only get worse!

Diff is that there are studies(huge one just came out this week) that show that is not true.  On the social media side, there are a lot of data that seem to show it is true with social media.  I mean, parents should parent and all, but kids especially are seemingly being hit hard by it.  On top of that there are studies showing that it is neg effecting our attention spans, how we absorb info, how much we can absorb, etc.  Its not good.

I am not in the burn it all down camp, but we def need regulation put together by people who understand the issue and it's challenges as well as the nuance involved and the cascading effects they could have on non-social media internet.  The problem is that, some likely due to the above info problems, nuance is not our thing.

Another problem is asking people born in the 40s to regulate technology

[sys]

I will take the other side for $100 a senate seat for even odds.

i'll accept your bet now, if you still want to make it.

[steve dave]

It’s a murderers row of downgrades

https://twitter.com/ritholtz/status/1353897747330588672


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[sys]

kinda surprised there were that many nos.

[sys]

also kinda interesting to look back and see that mnuchin was barely confirmed.

[sonofdaxjones]

Imagine going to the mat for Janet Yellen.

I mean 

[sys]

Obvi how risk averse you are definitely correlates to the policy you want to borrow for. Still interesting how much public opinion shifted since 2010ish, wish they had 2020 on there too.

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/01/26/wall-street-national-debt-462453?

yeah, there's been just a sea change in views of econ/policy people and business people seem only a little behind that.  the general public still lags a fair bit, but it's still dropped off the radar.