Moral Signs 2
A work situation reminded me of the challenges to one’s sense of morality. While I had written earlier on the professional aspect of that, this is a more personal take on how I have been faring while navigating with a moral compass.
Tag: morality
Default in our stars
Choosing “Shuffle Play” on Netflix and outsourcing an entertainment decision to an algorithm may not seem like a big deal, but I think there are second-order consequences that affect the self, society, and species – hugely driven by surveillance capitalism.
Brands, Activism & Morality
Across the world, inequities are becoming more stark, and increasingly, brands are being pushed to move from activism to action. Where do things go from here for a business and its communication, for us as consumers, and for (some of us) as marketers?
Micro Singularity & Ethics
The Guardian long read on “How algorithms rule our working lives” was a fantastic though distressing read, about employers using algorithms to filter out candidates based on reasons ranging from mental health to race to neighbourhoods to income. This in itself has massive implications on creating and expanding class divides and closing access to folks […]
Prosperity’s moral code
A few months ago, TechCrunch had a post debating the role of capitalism in a world that includes AI, where jobs are disappearing at a rate faster than new jobs coming in. Capitalism has always been played as a finite game, focused on profit for a set of people, largely irrespective of the costs to […]