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Yup, the problem is our markets are wildly broken because of advertising. If you had to actually pay for the content you consume you wouldn't have any of this.
by Super_Jambo 9y ago
Yup, the problem is our markets are wildly broken because of advertising. If you had to actually pay for the content you consume you wouldn't have any of this.
But corporations are allowed to pay a third party to build honey pots in order to poison your mind against you. The worst part of it is that it makes finding actually useful information almost impossible because there is such huge incentives to make superficially attractive information that's actually dross.
And people wonder why the foolish poor took on too much housing debt or why you had Trump running against Clinton.
"This world in arms in not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
But I'm sure sucking all our brightest minds into Google and Wall Street we'll innovate our way past global warming no bother.
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- DelightOne 9y agoI agree partly, see my answer below. > But I'm sure sucking all our brightest minds into Google and Wall Street we'll innovate our way past global warming no bother. However lamenting about this does not help anyone. Everyone has his own incentives.
- skrebbel 9y ago> But I'm sure sucking all our brightest minds into Google and Wall Street we'll innovate our way past global warming no bother. No, we're only sucking the brightest of the "path of least resistance" minds into Google and Wall Street. Plenty bright minds to go about, and many have ideas of their own.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoCorrect, but let me quote a surprisingly on-topic verse: "wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it." This seems to be quite fitting - most people are on the path of least resistance, brightness notwithstanding.