Here's another reason to quit social media: the lords of the engagement economy make money off "mimetic desire" -- off your envy of me and my envy of you. The

Here's another reason to quit social media: the lords of the engagement economy make money off "mimetic desire" -- off your envy of me and my envy of you. The more anxious they can make me and you about measuring up to each other, the more money they make. That's evil. Some might say it's demonic. Here's a writeup. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-... (Said he, writing on the Hacker News social media network :-)