Half of the newspaper industry was built on that
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Pipes : beer : newspapers :: cigarettes : gin : internet More concentrated form yields qualitatively different result.
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sincere question. which companies are now shaping this outrage & profiting the most? Good read from
@TowCenter http://towcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/The_Platform_Press_Tow_Report_2017.pdf …pic.twitter.com/YzW1J4R0ij
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"For reasons I have never understood, people like to hear that the world is going to hell."https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/business/economy/a-somber-view-of-americas-pace-of-progress.html?ref=business …
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Declinism is caused by a lollapalooza of "loss aversion," status quo bias" and "endowment effects." It creates "good old days" bias.
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This is it. It makes perfect sense why news sites publish outrage-worthy articles all day long. Because people click on it. It's like crack.
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Probably some weird evolutionary benefit gone awry.
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There are positives too. Like cat videos.
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can't believe you said that!
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Can't believe you said that to him. How could you man?
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I don't think so. People dislike being outraged, but Loves to outrage.
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too many people stuck living life in fearful, fight/flight/freeze, sympathetic tone...then, outrage feels 'good.'

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of course, sometimes fear or disagreement is necessary. But living life that way does not lead to rational thought.
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I agree.Fear conducts to misunderstanding and self destructive actions. I think fear is the most powerful disease of our time and generation
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What do u think will happen when anti-depressant, anger control medicine will cost U more than Ur mobile carrier plan with free smartphone?
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5 minutes hate?
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(originally 2, but adjusted for inflation)
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doesn't surprise me 1 bit. We sterilized our everyday lifes but we're still the same animal that needs to roar every now and then.
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