David Pakman

This is more or less the structure of modern politics, short term incentives.

A lot of the people talking about politics also don't care about you.

Now I'm talking about content creators, the people on your feed

you should critically analyze the people making videos telling you how angry you should be, how scared you should be, who you should hate doing the scapegoating and all of this stuff.

A lot of them are operating out of incentives, clicks, views, watch time, subscribers.

And if outrage performs, that's what they'll give you.

If fear performs, that's what they'll try to induce in you.

As I've said before,

There are a lot of areas where I'm leaving a lot on the table.

I could be playing up the whole they're canceling the election thing.

That wouldn't be honest, but it would perform really well.

I don't do that kind of thing.

I just tell you what I believe.

Some of what I believe doesn't get a lot of clicks.

That's the reality.

If telling you that everything is collapsing takes more or gets more engagement, that's what you're going to get.

So the system that affects elected officials to a great degree affects content creators as well.

Again, there are tons of people who don't fall under the umbrella that I am pointing out.

So what I think is important to consider is that once you see this reality about the political messaging that you're getting, a lot of what is out there is less confusing.

You can better understand why elected officials behave the way they do and why a lot of content creators behave the way they do.