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I'm curious what kind of business model would incentivize providing accurate, balanced information over spectacle and divisiveness.

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It would depend on recommendation algorithms actively promoting that balanced content.

None. That's the problem. We've reached a point where the very engine of humanity's growth, capitalism, has revealed a huge vulnerability in its design.

That flaw was apparent generations ago; yellow journalism isn't a product of the internet age.

Capitalism also isn't the fundamental engine of hunanity’s growth, just a fairly recent stage in the development of economic systems that is likely as transitional as all the past stages.

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