The Story You Care About Is The Distraction - Barry's Economics

This video is about the gap between - what you feel about Epstein and what you feel about other, bigger news stories - and why it's not a moral failure. It's neuroscience.

Featuring research from Paul Slovic (psychic numbing),
Robin Dunbar (the Social Brain Hypothesis),
Siddharth Kara (cobalt mining), and Shoshana Zuboff.

This is the third video in the series.
The first two:
1 - Your Brain Won't Let You See What Epstein Really Was — https://youtu.be/sS33crOQvrM
2 - Epstein Isn't an Aberration. He's an Inevitable Outcome — https://youtu.be/b1vFgUi4frU

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0:00 - The Test
1:00 - Why your brain can't feel it (Paul Slovic)
4:00 - The five behaviours of the Epstein Economy
4:24 - Concentration of wealth
6:58 - Removal of consequence
8:53 - Capture of politics
10:04 - Manufacture of desperation
12.38 - Normalisation of deviance
15:10 - Your brain was built for a village (Dunbar)
19:30 — Why the name matters

I’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality and obsessed abotu the things that really influence our actions and lives

This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.

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