Jonathan Haidt

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899 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 24 Jun

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There's all sorts of things you need to have a vibrant free market society.

And over time, we developed those institutions and the FDA being really a great example of one.

But we've also always been subject to corruption.

Every system is.

And as money has played a larger role in our politics, and of course it did in the 19th century, it's not that this is new, but it fluctuates.

But as money is playing a huge role nowadays, it's very easy, it's so easy to buy influence.

I think our health, our public health and our children's health is being sacrificed in a really dramatic way.

And so, but here's, okay, but you know what?

I've been pretty, I've been so dark so far.

Because it is, you know, because like, you know, you start studying one problem, like, okay, social media and depression.

And then you find out, wait, no, it's social media and gambling and porn and all the dopamine things.

And it's all these outcomes and it's attention.

So like the problem keeps getting bigger and bigger.

But let me turn this around by saying,

here's the amazing thing.

We're actually working on it.

Like we're actually making incredible progress in the last year or two.

So when I started this, my book came, you and I talked I think soon after the book came out in 2024.

And people thought it was crazy.

Like, oh, you're gonna raise, what, you're gonna have an age limit for social media?

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