David Friedberg
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60 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 21 Aug
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And that's why it's like, so every day it's like, oh my God.
It's disorientating.
Yeah.
You and I did.
You and I did, yeah.
These things are obviously addicting.
He had a very important point, which is to try and keep kids off
cell phones and social media until they're 16, and he was kind of cheerleading this verdict.
But, you know, I'll take a little bit of a contrarian to the popular kind of sentiment on this, and I'll just talk broadly about this idea of tort litigation.
Tort litigation,
you know, cost our economy $900 billion a year in the United States, 900 billion a year.
That's how much is spent on the litigation costs, the settlements, the judgments, it's 3% of GDP, and it's growing roughly 10% per year.
And these civil penalties decided by juries, like they're, you know, going against big companies like Meta, YouTube, but it's also food companies, restaurants, everything.
Anytime there's a window to sue someone and extract
value from them, tort firms are all over them.
You know, it's called the tort tax now in America.
It's not just losses paid by the companies because fundamentally when a big company pays out these tort taxes, they're going to invest less.
There's less R&D, less product development, costs stay high.
there's new fewer new product launches, and there's all these crazy restrictions on stuff.
So you know, look, I agree, social media causes immense harm, particularly causes harm for kids, kids should not be on social media until they're 16.
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