> economy predicated on negative-value-add activities like clicking heart icons on photos I think you have this backwards. These social networks are predicated

> economy predicated on negative-value-add activities like clicking heart icons on photos I think you have this backwards. These social networks are predicated on the businesses that are generating enough revenues to spend on ads with them. EDIT: To add some more context USA GDP in 2019 was 21.4t . Facebook's revenue is 0.004 of that number.