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> It's sad that I've become less and less confident that people can be trusted with what they consume -- food, content, anything.

Can you elaborate more on what you mean by this?

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I mean, the more complex the world become, the worse our choices are in free market, since we don't see the long term consequences of some decisions. For instance, getting a streaming-service subscription is convenient for the consumer, but in practice it seems like making a customer binary (either on board or out) has made content more a race-to-the-bottom.

In the end, I think that gatekeeping of some kind can increase both quality and the tastes of the average consumer. The fact that it's hard has led us to abandon it completely though, similarly to how people say now "the government can't make anything".

I also know that I'm a weak creature, and could use some external help to not deliver me constant temptations. If you see content as food for your mind, I find it easy to binge junk, only to be left with a feeling of emptiness after a while.

I think they are talking about our proclivity to get addicted to something similar to high fructose corn syrup in any shape or form.

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