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What's the difference between that story and the tons of smart people trying to create dark patterns to trick people into clicking ads instead of researching an
by jbverschoor 5y ago
What's the difference between that story and the tons of smart people trying to create dark patterns to trick people into clicking ads instead of researching and developing great things?
- mdp2021 5y agoThe "contempt for efficiency" disaster also has other sides: all the time you lose to navigate into what should have been done properly in the first place.
- bawolff 5y agoMost people consider smart people diverted to creating dark patterns, to be a bad thing. OP clearly thinks the tourist-dual ecconomy thing in Cuba is bad (for cuba as a whole). So why should there be a difference? If person A says X is bad, and person B says Y is the same as X, and everyone thinks Y is also bad, where is the contradiction? Its not like there can only be one bad thing in the world.
- phreeza 5y agoPulling a chair onto the beach for someone actually has value?
- noduerme 5y agoThis seems like whataboutism. Sure, capitalism creates some warped incentive structures - e.g. public schoolteachers being underpaid - but the Cuban government goes out of its way to royally screw anyone who tries to educate themselves or to create anything. Even the fact that we have a choice to create great things or create antipatterns presupposes that the free market draws people to acquire skills in the first place.