Owen Gregorian

And so I think feminism was just a net negative for families.

Yeah, well, I mean, the story does talk about predictions that follow from this.

And it's not really all positive, but it does say that maybe countries that have less smartphones...

would have less of an issue.

And it does seem to be true based on the data that's available that parts of Eastern Europe and Africa don't have as much of this problem.

It says, you know, maybe the gap will narrow among women who have children because parenthood kind of breaks that feedback loop and gives you different priorities, which I talked about already.

And then

From there, though, it's like maybe some women will escape this trap of having this social media consensus engine running on them all the time.

Maybe it will be the ones that have children because that gives you a whole different set of priorities.

Maybe some men will stop withdrawing or stop rage scrolling and find something that's worth building and get into that.

essentially the system's going to keep running on everybody else.

And it seems like a negative force.

And, you know, Bill Ackman asked, why did this happen?

I think the conclusion from the article is it's not because women are emotional and it's not because social media is bad per se, but it's that we have this global scale consensus engine that,

that we deployed on a species that has this different response from women and men.

And so I guess it is still saying that social media is part of the problem.

But I think the solution sounds like it's more, you know, disconnect from that stuff.

Don't pay as much attention to what social media thinks about things.

And, you know, connect more with people around you and have your own personal set of values and go after those personal relationships.

And that seems to be the solution.