{"id":16159,"date":"2021-11-16T04:03:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T04:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/in-what-ways-can-mechanical-thinking-contribute-to-the-process-of-expository-writing-rutgers-university-new-brunswick\/"},"modified":"2021-11-16T04:03:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T04:03:56","slug":"in-what-ways-can-mechanical-thinking-contribute-to-the-process-of-expository-writing-rutgers-university-new-brunswick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/in-what-ways-can-mechanical-thinking-contribute-to-the-process-of-expository-writing-rutgers-university-new-brunswick\/","title":{"rendered":"In what ways can mechanical thinking contribute to the process of | Expository Writing | Rutgers University &#8211; New Brunswick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Readings:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Joseph Stiglitz, \u201cRent Seeking and the Making of an Unequal Society\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(New Humanities Reader)<\/p>\n<p>Franklin Foer, \u201cMark Zuckerberg\u2019s War on Free Will\u201d (linked on Sakai as\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>an excerpt from\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>World Without Mind)<\/p>\n<p>Prompt:<\/p>\n<p>Franklin Foer discusses how Facebook, through its use of algorithms that manipulate its\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>users in various ways, \u201coutsources\u201d independent thought and encourages what Foer\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>calls \u201cmechanical thinking\u201d. \u00a0Joseph Stiglitz outlines how a small societal elite can\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>manipulate the economy to unfairly reward itself while depriving lower-class workers of\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>fair compensation for their efforts. \u00a0He calls this activity \u201crent seeking\u201d, and though he applies it primarily to the financial sector, its definition can be more broadly applied to any industry or elite that is financially rewarded in a way that is greater than their actual creation of wealth. In a well-developed essay that makes use of the texts above, please answer the following question: In what ways can mechanical thinking contribute to the process of rent seeking?<\/p>\n<p>5 full pages must use quotes and use proper citations\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readings: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Joseph Stiglitz, \u201cRent Seeking and the Making of an Unequal Society\u201d\u00a0 (New Humanities Reader) Franklin Foer, \u201cMark Zuckerberg\u2019s War on Free Will\u201d (linked on Sakai as\u00a0 an excerpt from\u00a0 World Without Mind) Prompt: Franklin Foer discusses how Facebook, through its use of algorithms that manipulate its\u00a0 users in various ways, \u201coutsources\u201d independent thought and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homework-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}