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Mike | Abundance 🌟
@abundance
Changing the meta starts with changing the economic incentives; if journalists are paid based on the value of their reporting to the public interest, and not the engagement their content gets, they’d have an incentive to report the facts Then, if the incentive structure is transparent – if it’s built on the blockchain (so anyone can review the code) & the mechanism is easy to understand, then you can have a completely different meta Anyone can then “DYOR” on the incentives, and then have a lot more trust that the information is credible and independent of hidden interests. Once you have credible info you can have news that’s meant to inform you, pharma companies that are focused on making drugs that actually help people, a food industry that’s focused on nutritious produce and so on. But it all must start from an information economy where the meta is aligning profit w value for the public interest. (Part IV) Full article 👇 https://paragraph.xyz/@abundance/why-we-need-a-new-economic-meta
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Sangohan.base.eth đźź
@sangohan
You got my attention with the part about food. Today, I was actually reflecting on this very topic. As time goes by, I feel more and more like we’re eating just to eat. Fruits and vegetables have less and less flavor, and it’s clear that their nutritional value is almost nonexistent. Meat is loaded with antibiotics and various chemicals, because even the feed given to livestock is treated. Fish is full of heavy metals and plastic. Genuine “organic” products are expensive, and even then we have issues – for instance, in Europe, the soil is so overtreated it’s almost dead. “Organic” labels are slapped on products that aren’t really organic at all and are often imported from countries with looser standards. It’s a huge problem because food is our fuel. I’d even say it’s both our fuel and our health capital for the years to come. Very interesting article. Now that I understand the trilemma, but how do we solve it?
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Mike | Abundance 🌟
@abundance
right. we also feed corn to all farm animals (including farmed fish!) which is kinda insane but that's the cheapest/calorically dense feed. I also read somewhere (Food .inc?) that our fruit and veggies now have a small fraction of the nutrients they had in the 50s bc everyone is maximizing size at the expense of nutrients. short term we have to be a lot more conscious w what we consume (not just food, but everything else really, including information). but long term we need to build systems that align personal interest with the public interest. I write about this extensively both in these "longcasts" and in my book, The Abundance Economy (book.abundance.id). That is also the long term goal of /impact
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