Many lucid thoughts in this segment…
David Rosenberg, chief economist at Rosenberg Research, speaks with Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about GDP forecasts and what we should expect from the Canadian economy, especially if there are more outbreaks of COVID-19. Here is a direct video link.
Before eight am this morning, my phone recorded three separate fraudulent messages from companies claiming that our credit card had unauthorized transactions and that tax authorities are coming to arrest us soon if we don’t call back.
If it feels like a fraud, deceit and manipulation, are widespread business models today, that is because they are. Meanwhile, a new UK study joins many others in finding an “explosion” in anxiety over the past decade, with the financial crash, austerity, Brexit, climate change and social media blamed for massive rises in the condition.
To understand more about how companies are selling our personal info, trust and attention as their product while designing technology to fuel addictive behaviour, it is helpful to watch the new Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma; here is a direct video link to the trailer.
The designers won’t let their own children and themselves use what they have made for the rest of us. The documentary talks about things we can do to fight back.
As always, we don’t have to be helpless pawns, but we do have to be thinking, self-disciplined individuals.
In the first of this three-part series, we dive into the history of democracy, its birth and the United States’ unique take on this form of government. The episode takes a look at some uniquely American challenges that limit American democracy such as hyperpartisanship, negative partisanship, institutional constraints (gerrymandering, the Electoral College, voter registration) and more. Here is a direct video link.
