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Cumol  ·  1519 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Social Cooling

I am wondering what can do, besides raising awareness.

I was the social dilemma documentary with a couple of friends and had an interesting discussion about it.

One thing that came up is that this problem is one one side so subtle and slow that people don't feel the impact right away (no injury, no pain) and on the other hand a little more complex than X causes Y, so it makes it harder to break down and explain why it is a problem at all. This second one is similar to the discourse we had in Europe about the CumEx affairs, some stock market shenanigans that cost multiple European countries billions were so complex to understand that people lost interest. Even though it's billions in tax money that people stole.

I like the comparison to climate change. Because it compares on both points to it. It is a slow change and a little more complex than X causes Y.

So what can we do?

Use brave Browser? Set up a pihole? Delete Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram?

Any suggestions?