(Maciej Cegłowski's talks are hilarious, insightful, and highly recommended) It's not just the media; this is a problem inherent to capitalism (at least the ty

(Maciej Cegłowski's talks are hilarious, insightful, and highly recommended) It's not just the media; this is a problem inherent to capitalism (at least the type of relatively unregulated capitalism as currently practiced in the USA). Charles Stross discussed this[1] at his recent talk[2] at 34c3. The corporation is a "paperclip maximizer" that optimize for "profit", and they already took over and enslaved us. [1] among other high-level vision ideas [2] (the part I'm referring to starts at ~13:05) https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future