https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shap ... d-industry
At first, I was almost convinced that Ben Shapiro was defending his actions in promoting spammy sound bites in his broadcasts, but it seems he might actually be on the "good side."
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Shapiro has also long had GARM in his sights — the advertiser coalition which controls 90% of global advertising dollars and counts the biggest corporations in the world as its members was the subject of the first episode of his Facts series. He described GARM as part of “a network of global elites who have created a universal framework full of guidelines and ratings designed to enforce ‘approved’ narratives and punish disapproved ones.”
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On the topic of inflationary growth through "printing" (adding squiggly zeroes using crayons on bank accounts) of trillions of dollars, which makes the economy look "bigger,' is akin to people confusing centimeters with inches and thinking they've impressed upon some self-actualization.
The reality hasn't seemed to set in yet, as to where this is heading. . . This is everything that Keynes warned about with inflationary bloat created by offsetting the inevitable downturn in economies (inflation that has affected some countries far worse than 2008 and earlier crises.) Not to mention how automation could quickly overtake the menial tasks in repetitive job environments, and mostly what people are left with are massive Real Estate Investment Firms, and a Plutocracy that ensures that they continue to maintain power over the serfs who can't ever escape the circumstances of how wealth accumulates (echoes of the Gilded Age.) The very issues systemic in business has also plagued many with ongoing issues of performance tracking where fake representation of stats are used to game a system, and any number of shifting accountability as well as grifting off subsidies, can be used to appear successful while devouring the very source of that fleshed out images. Companies can go decades with the same problem of chasing after data points while gutting the core of a business, while simultaneously working for their own accumulation of wealth through stock payouts. People will be sold lies that might appear convincing enough, even when they are demonstrably false from the beginning, and yet will cling to the idea that it's not a lie because the alternative is far too damaging to their desire for it to be right. People will allow themselves to be exploited as long as they are part of the crowd, and are merely gravitating towards what won't alienate them from the flock.
The image of maintaining the illusion of progress is infinitely more compelling to want to maintain than the desire to acknowledge the conditions of deception used to prop up the illusion of success; that all is not what it seems. The negative repercussions are easier to place with a "fall guy" or "scapegoat" than to be accountable for decisions that had a precedent decades in the making, and which the short-term interest will always have more immediate appeal to the majority who are unwilling or incapable of delaying gratification for future generations.
