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It's not qualitatively different from a software engineer spending their time helping a FAANG increase their hold over people's habits. It's just more explicit.
by Bakary 6y ago
It's not qualitatively different from a software engineer spending their time helping a FAANG increase their hold over people's habits. It's just more explicit.
- awinter-py 6y agodifferent in that engagement patterns are developed by dopamine experts who know the deal, whereas the $99 ring is just dropped in the lap of someone who until that point has had the privilege of believing they're a good person
- Bakary 6y agoI would bet my life savings that most of the people concerned easily rationalized it, just like the FAANG engineers do it here along different arguments.