Jonathan Haidt
speaker
899 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
Jonathan Haidt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And then we enter the industrial age, and now it's not just you have tobacco leafs, you have machines that can make millions of cigarettes in a day, and they're cheap, and they're pushed everywhere, and they were pushed on kids, and they were pushed in high schools in the 50s and 60s.
So you get this constant process of both the concentration of the reward so that you don't just have, well, honey's pretty darn sweet, but fruit is very good, but now the kids don't even want fruit because there are so many sweeter things.
So you get the concentration, and that happens with drugs.
You go from opium poppies to heroin to fentanyl.
You get this concentration and you get a removal of friction.
As you mentioned before, friction is part of life.
We need a world with friction.
But what the digital world has done is say, how about you can have any vice you want, anytime, no shame, instant.
You want porn?
You got it.
You want gambling?
You got it.
It's everywhere.
You want nicotine?
It's everywhere.
So we're creating—we're going down this road that Courtright describes, and we desperately need—this is one of the major roles of government is to prevent a free market society from having competition.
Competition is usually good among firms, but competition to hook kids before the other guy does is—
There's no way to stop that as a race to the bottom other than government saying, stop it, stop it.
Why do you think our government's not doing that?
Our government, yes, yes.
Showing 461–480 of 899 · page 24 of 45
← Previous
Next →