Digital Dystopia

Autocratic regimes, democratic majorities, private platforms, and religious or professional organizations can achieve social control by managing the flow of information about individuals’ behavior. Bundling agents’ political, organizational, attitudes with their prosocial conduct makes them care behaviors that they otherwise would not. The incorporation graph in score further promotes soft but destroys fabric. Both bundling guilt association are most effective a society has weak ties is politically docile. (JEL D64, D72, D83, D91, K38, Z13)