> Don't kid yourself, all those historical events happened because they helped business by increasing the number of potential customers This strikes me as bein

> Don't kid yourself, all those historical events happened because they helped business by increasing the number of potential customers This strikes me as being categorically wrong and is not backed by any data that I am aware of. Civil rights were and in some cases still are actively retarded by white business owners, and there were already businesses set up to cater to minorities. It's not like there was some huge untapped pool of consumers sitting around waiting to be liberated so they could spend their savings. > A very recent example is how the media pushes women to work, and LGBT issues so hard: those demographics are the ones that consume the most, so they need to make them work and appeal to them. These people already worked and were already consuming prior to media attention. You think LGBT people just didn't buy shit before it was more socially acceptable to be out? Also, you have your causality reversed. The media shows people what the people want to see because that generates clicks and engagement. It makes no sense for them to show people unpopular agenda driven content that they don't like because it will lose them money. > How is killing Facebook going to help business? A. Destroying social media would actually probably dramatically improve efficiency at most businesses as people waste enormous amounts of time fucking around on it while at work. B. The people currently at Facebook could use their collective intelligence to actually build useful products instead of trying to show ads to people or encouraging them to engage with what are ultimately useless, bullshit, slice of life trivialities. C. I don't care whether killing or regulating Facebook helps or hurts business in the long run. If their practices are harming society, the company needs to be regulated or destroyed. Inaction just encourages moral hazard and / or signals to other companies that this behavior is acceptable.