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Zander Nethercutt

San Rafael, CA | Kenyon College | Chicago, IL

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Competition Won’t Fix Big Tech

Antitrust regulators should block natural monopolies from acquiring their biggest threats: new potential monopolies “All happy companies are different: each … More

Antitrust, Apple, Facebook, google, Monopoly, Tech

We’re Primed to Be Addicted to Social Media

Networks are the internet’s black holes, and trolls are its dark energy   nor·mie /nôrmē/ noun noun: normie; plural noun: normies … More

Facebook, instagram, Internet, social media, space, trolling, twitter

The Instagram Generation

What happens when a society with a penchant for the cosmetic meets a medium dominated by it? “The medium is the … More

Facebook, instagram, mcluhan, Tech

Is Optimization Ruining Innovation?

Platforms are making us complacent. Here’s why. In a 2017 article titled “Definite Optimism as Human Capital,” writer Dan Wang made a compelling … More

Amazon, Facebook, google, technology, Travel

Musings on Facebook

Strategy credits and unintended consequences abound! As many analysts have argued, Facebook’s forced self-regulation will only entrench their incumbent position … More

Apple, Facebook, google, Internet, technology

An Economy of Desire

What economic theory says about the internet’s effect on society “Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley … More

economics, Facebook, Internet, Netflix, Tech, technology

The Death of the Deliberate

The other night, I got an ad on Facebook for a therapist. Credit: The New York Times It wasn’t the first … More

Facebook, mental health, mental illness

The Information Market

Capitalism’s Takeover of the Final Good “What is the goal of economics?” My Principles of Microeconomics professor, a lithe figure with … More

Donald Trump, economics, Facebook, Politics, social media

Finding the Road

A follow-up to “Sugar-Coating Facebook” In the wake of my post about Facebook a little over a month ago, I … More

economics, Facebook, social media, society, technology

Sugar-Coating Facebook

Sixty years ago, in the midst of a national healthcare epidemic, health experts deemed fat, and specifically saturated fat, to … More

2016 Election, Donald Trump, Facebook, Politics, social media

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