The idea that everything becomes a signal gets even more disturbing if you realize that the field of mechanism design is concerned with presenting you options w

The idea that everything becomes a signal gets even more disturbing if you realize that the field of mechanism design is concerned with presenting you options where identifying the truth about yourself or not play at all is your only rational options. Famously applied in auctions and amazon algorithms to extract the maximum welfare from the consumer. Also the reason why FAANG hired so many mathematical economists recently.