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Love is not Dopamine. Happiness is not Dopamine.

To resist the "Dopamine Cartel," change the way you talk about human experience.

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Santiago Ramos
Mar 19, 2024
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Painting (formerly Machine) (1916), Morton Livingston Schamberg (American, 1881 – 1918)

The music critic Ted Gioia recently published an essay about what he calls “the dopamine cartel,” companies like Tik Tok, X, and Spotify that depend on dopamine addiction as part of their business model. “Instead of movies, users get served up an endless sequence of 1…

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