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2 Oct 2024 Conversations with Tyler Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media
“I think we’re trending toward greater passivity, where all kinds of outrageous things happen and no one protests, which to someone my age is quite extreme and unusual.”
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- 2 Oct 2024
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…We don’t have to get into it, but do you think the US is trending toward that? I think we’re trending toward greater passivity, where all kinds of outrageous things happen and no one protests, which to someone my age is quite extreme and unusual. And they just operate on social media, and maybe that absorbs the chaos, but you get less error correction over time. Because people are passive.…
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