How am I supposed to teach kids to want to be anonymous, shadowy, super coders working on open protocols, when they are hard wired to desire “views” “friends” “likes” and the status of a well known inluencoor?
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Different motivations. They want to be popular, others want to be powerful.
I agree, but for the majority of adolescents/teenagers popularity = power. This is often reinforced through the media they consume too.
Unwire them.
Tell them hard truths.
That if too many people agree with them, what they say is either obvious or wrong.
That most people aren’t very smart, and that being liked by the majority means either being equally dumb — or a heartless manipulator.
That influencers are nothing but artefacts — glitches — produced by bad algorithms designed by unimaginative coders. And that they can be completely forgotten after the next upgrade.
Tell them that all validation from the entire planet can be wiped away in a second — but if they invent some technology it, can never be uninvented.
Only deviants want to be anonymous.