➴➴➴Æ🜔Ɲ.Ƈꭚ⍴𝔥єɼ👩🏻‍💻 on Nostr: Social media companies wanted to keep people engaged, so their platforms reward posts ...

Social media companies wanted to keep people engaged, so their platforms reward posts that get a lot of attention. Outrage, shaming, and public callouts get tons of clicks and shares, so those posts spread the fastest. Over time, people learned that calling others out was the best way to be seen. The end result is a culture of public shaming, even though nobody set out to create it.

Most people agree racism is wrong, but many of our schools, neighborhoods, and laws were built in times when racism was common. Those old rules left behind patterns: wealth in some communities, poverty in others, and different levels of policing and opportunity. Even if nobody today wants racism, the system still keeps producing unequal results. (not claiming that no one wants racism)

Cap and Trade was designed to cut pollution by putting limits on emissions and letting companies trade credits. But in practice, some companies treated credits like permission to pollute, while others found ways to game the system. Instead of cutting pollution, the program sometimes just moved it around, or even made it worse.