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endinequalitynow

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3. Social media will have negative consequences for society.
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 05:28 AM
Jan 2022

SM will hurt society by promoting materialism. People will overspend on pricey shoes and become trend followers. The disparity between haves and have-nots will be made clear on all platforms. Eventually , you'll get explosions of anger like the capitol siege as misinformation becomes religion.

Social media will hurt traditional power-structures like the Catholic Church by exposing that Science preaches no after-life. As these power-structures which have been in place for centuries implode , there will be a lot of upheaval.

Republicans will suffer the most because of social media , because all of their pundits will be extremists who push the nomination of fringe candidates. Tucker Carlson can have a big audience , but if he wins the nomination he will lose because his views are so crazy for example.

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