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Trent Smith Profile picture
Trent Smith
@economistrent
Econ prof. U. Otago, New Zealand
Aug 31, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The industrial psychology of mass vaccination in this pandemic is fascinating. The mainstream "consensus" messaging has uniformly downplayed the (undeniable) scientific uncertainty surrounding the long term health effects of COVID-19 vaccination.
usatoday.com/story/news/fac… It also frames the vaccination decision as personalistic, largely ignoring the (compelling) societal benefits.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33856880/
Dec 8, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
There is a virtual copy of your life on the internet. Should you be worried? A thread. 1/

newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/virt… Matt and I ask in our op-ed what a small country like New Zealand could/should do about collection/exploitation of consumer data. I’ll focus here on the *economics* of what @shoshanazuboff has dubbed #SurveillanceCapitalism 2/