Stephen Dubner
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Being really, truly loving and kind to other people is really, really, really important.
All the other things that we do for reputation or money, they're necessary.
They're understandable.
They're fantastic in moderation.
Ambition is great.
The most dangerous part about the worst parts of our attention economy, I think, is that they incentivize people to be unkind.
Simple as that.
We know that.
The science is pretty proven, but we got to stop that.
By the way, the odds are very, very, very, very, very good.
Because someone listening is in a very bad marriage.
That's right.
And none of us should be saying that with a laugh in our voices.
It's just a recognition of how fucking hard it is.
It's hard.
Where do you go in this case, though?
That's what I'm saying.
You got like a reverse engineer.
And that's a moratorium enacted by or carried out by whom on whom, though.