HN user
"The Attention Merchants" by Tim Wu nicely covers some of Bernays' influence, in the context of advertising and other forms of attention capture from the 19th century through present day. Can't recommend the book enough.
Yes - anxiety, depression, and suicides are not new. But the rates have risen drastically.
Hmm...source?
I mean...that's admirable, but why are you assuming that most of the potential EV buyers will do the same?
Network effect.
My anecdote - out of, say, 50 people I know, two have Telegram. The rest use a combination of iMessage, Facebook messenger, and WhatsApp.
22yo male.