Financial Gain in Modern Tech Dehumanizes Us

Axios writes:
Tristan Harris, the former Googler who helped popularize the notion of “time well spent” laid out the shift he says the tech industry needs to make in order to stop, as he puts it, “downgrading humanity.” … Harris made the case that today’s technology downgrades humanity by creating a vast artificial social system powered by “overwhelming” AI and an “extractive” attention economy.
The problem, as Harris notes, is that the first company to blink loses.