I, for one, have Serious Concerns about the monopoly JK Rowling has over the ideas in her own headhttps://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1220481483002937344 …
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Who is proposing hamstringing the ability to navigate the search space for the best stuff?
You've described one major process by which this occurs as a "negative externality." Maybe you're defining that in some way other than what I'm accustomed to.
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*Having* a negative externality, not *being* a negative externality. The point is that one component of the motivation to see popular things comes specifically from their popularity-qua-popularity, and not their quality-as-evidenced-by-their-popularity.
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In the case of Facebook, I've definitely heard the idea that me steadfastly refusing to get a Facebook account contributed to my loneliness in middle/high school. Not sure how true that is in practice (maybe I was better off because FB is a trap), but the causal pathway exists.
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