eliyah23rd t1_itpn09g wrote on October 25, 2022 at 11:58 AM

For all the potential dangers that social media create, perhaps it is our last, best hope.

Attempts at underlying change in the past failed. The ability of the greedy individual to concentrate power repeatedly thwarted even the best of initiatives.

Social media has the potential, only the potential of course, to create a vehicle to coordinate a very large number of minds and skills in the interest of the widest possible cooperation.

I propose a grass-roots Universal Moral Framework controlled by everybody and nobody. ESG seems to be a sham, a system of fences run by the foxes to protect the chickens.

It is a little difficult to be optimistic about this suggestion, but I can think of no better.

glass_superman t1_itpvcdm wrote on October 25, 2022 at 1:10 PM

Technology is a force multiplier, true, but it works for all sides and it's owned by the wealthy. I'm skeptical of it.

Facebook helped organize the people voting for Donald Trump and Brexit.

eliyah23rd t1_itq2cup wrote on October 25, 2022 at 2:03 PM

I'm here because of the content that people like you and I create. Without that content, there is no value. Yes, it is owned by concentrations of wealth.

This technology is not going away. It will evolve. I don't see a choice but to talk about how we can move it in positive directions. I see no harm in proposing practical solutions and letting them get ripped apart, until some good proposals come up that lots of people are willing to get behind.

VitriolicViolet t1_itsktsv wrote on October 26, 2022 at 12:08 AM

>Technology is a force multiplier, true, but it works for all sides and it's owned by the wealthy. I'm skeptical of it.

you should be, by definition a force multiplier helps those with the most influence.

who will have greater reach in a grassroots movement? you or Bezos?

it most certainly did help with trump, brexit, iraq, attempting to make the West want war with China and us voting to dismantle our own nations (look at the West, funny how we are all on a similiar trajectory isnt it?)

glass_superman t1_itsqsvc wrote on October 26, 2022 at 12:53 AM

Great point that last one. Why is it that idiot leaders just pop up in every country simultaneously? Because it's all one big global game.

Amphy64 t1_itpyvkv wrote on October 25, 2022 at 1:37 PM

Much of the UK old Labour left backed Brexit and always had, it was seen as aiming at systemic change.