The Price of a Like

What this episode is aboutThe Price of a Like is a short, sharp look at how the innocent idea of “liking” each other online quietly reshaped our culture — and what it cost us. It’s the story of how kindness became currency, algorithms replaced empathy and millions of people paid the emotional price for a product that was never designed to protect them.What listeners will getIn just a few minutes, you’ll hear why empathy must be engineered into the systems we build — social, technological and personal. If you’ve ever felt drained by online life, pressured by comparison or uneasy about what social platforms turned us into, this episode will feel like someone finally put words to something you’ve sensed for years.What this episode representsThis is the first step into Walk & Talk — a series of short, honest reflections for people carrying more than they show. Real stories. Clear ideas. Emotional truth without the noise.Walk with me. Let’s make sense of the world one quiet step at a time.