S3E2 | What Governments Must Do | The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt | The Messy Podcast
Update: 2025-03-16
Description
This podcast will discusscollective action problems and how they relate to childhood and technology.
- Collective action problems occur when individuals act in their own self-interest, which leads to a negative outcome for everyone.
- An example of this is when kids want to get smartphones and social media accounts because their peers have them.
- Parents feel pressure to give their children smartphones to fit in, even though they may not want to.
- This leads to a "stable but unfortunate equilibrium" where everyone has a smartphone, and children are not having a play-based childhood.
- The podcast will cover howcollective action problems can be overcome.
- Four main types ofcollective response are discussed:
- The podcast will also discuss how technology companies and schools can work together to reverse the transition from play-based to phone-based childhood.
- The podcast will also discuss the importance of giving children independence and the need to protect them from online harms.
- The podcast will cite research that explores these issues.
- The podcast recognizes that the psychological principles that will be discussed are not universally applicable.
- The podcast acknowledges the challenges in making changes and the need to try new policies and measure the outcomes.
- The podcast aims to promote healthier childhoods.
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