>If you're not capable of contributing to your society then what value do you truly have? Consuming. Same with the pensioners. They are not worthless to a capitalist society, they consume the goods which people and companies produce allowing them to have a job in the first place. And if I could play devil's advocate for a moment: Facebook can be used by grassroots organizations to affect change in their communities, it can contribute something to society. Professional athletes on the other hand... >I just ensure that children will grow up to be empathetic. I thought I heard a few years ago about some economic models that try to take these things into account, I can't remember where at the moment though. Does anyone know?
Consumers! of course, why didn't I think of that? I disagree that these social media sites like Twitter actually sparked revolutions. People will fight and revolt and protest with or without the internet. We've been doing it for literally forever. It's human nature to communicate when we have a problem. But, again, I have my own selfish point of view regarding internet technology and its value in society. Thanks for the enlightening POV . I'm not nearly as familiar with economic modeling as I believed I was. The perspective that there can be a value placed on empathy, for example, seems intuitive but I just sort of assumed it was ignored as a worthless personality trait for the sake of economic modeling.
I'm not saying social media can spark revolutions, but the have proved to be useful tools. Don't know if the rest of that was sarcastic or not :/