don’t think the average person in 1926 assumed they were an expert on medicine or physics or finance or whatever. If a doctor, or physicist, or banker told them something, they’d generally nod their head.
So many of those professionals were just professional scammers back then. Until the professionalization of these fields, in the 1940s/50s, you really couldn’t trust them. And avoiding people who claimed to do surgery/treat cancer, while keeping all your money in your mattress was genuinely a smarter move.
the other half is that they weren’t able to shout it into an algorithm that absolutely loves the controversy it generates, and serve it to billions of people automatically.
A lot of this shit is amplified and filtered to operate as it’s own native advertising.
The shit opinions that align with the marketing agenda are the ones that get front-paged.
So many of those professionals were just professional scammers back then. Until the professionalization of these fields, in the 1940s/50s, you really couldn’t trust them. And avoiding people who claimed to do surgery/treat cancer, while keeping all your money in your mattress was genuinely a smarter move.
A lot of this shit is amplified and filtered to operate as it’s own native advertising.
The shit opinions that align with the marketing agenda are the ones that get front-paged.