Attention Economy


Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Can Increasingly Angry Humans Cooperate with Each Other?

What if Humans Just Can’t Get Along Anymore?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/opinion/technology-internet-cooperation.html
Farhad Manjoo notes:
“… as the pioneering political economist Elinor Ostrom showed over a lifetime of research, there are countless examples of people coming together to create rules and institutions to manage common resources. People aren’t profit-maximizing automatons; time and again, she found, we can make individual sacrifices in the interest of collective good.
Ostrom was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2009. In her prize lecture she wrote that “humans have a more complex motivational structure and more capability to solve social dilemmas” than rational-choice economists have given us credit for. The key to unlocking these capabilities, she said, was building the right institutions”.
 
AMERICAN SHOPPERS ARE A NIGHTMARE
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/pandemic-american-shoppers-nightmare/619650/