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Unappreciated his take on social media as a beneficial presence in modern society:
The next point is an optimistic one: social media has transformed information flow. Historically, people traded information at the barber shop or fish market, acting as both conveyors and recipients. Big media disrupted this, turning us into passive consumers of TV lectures by the state and a bowdlerized press. Now, platforms like TikTok and X allow us to both share and receive information, returning to a natural model.
Everybody loves to hate on social media, despite almost everyone using it to some extent. And the effects haven't been all bad.
Also liked this one:
In Europe, governments account for 40–50% of GDP (higher in France particularly if you include education). In the U.S., it’s higher than reported when you include local government and recent interventions. A century ago, governments were under 15% of GDP, often less than 5%.
A limited-government conservative today is dreaming of what a centralizer was hoping for only a few decades ago.
The same may be said for freedom. As the cliché goes, infringements of freedom that would have sparked revolutions a century ago, lead to mild whining in our current age.
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