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Broken Economic Models in Technology That Hurt Humans At Scale

Explore how current economic and technological paradigms, particularly surveillance capitalism, are negatively impacting society. Broken Economic Models for Humanity Key Concepts: Surveillance Capitalism Definition by Shoshana Zuboff Extracts and monetizes human experience data Concentrates wealth, knowledge, and power Threatens human nature and democracy Externality First Capitalism Proposed solution to create markets for social good Examples: Carbon pricing in services Media platform taxation based on factual content Tax credits for repairable technology Taxation of addictive technology profits Corporate and individual wealth tax Right to repair initiatives Game Theory and AI