Relevant discussion from earlier today: The Magnificent Bribe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29154178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29154178 > Sur

Relevant discussion from earlier today: The Magnificent Bribe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29154178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29154178 > Surrender to the power of complex technological systems — allow them to oversee, track, quantify, guide, manipulate, grade, nudge, and surveil you — and the system will offer you back an appealing share in its spoils. What is good for the growth of the technological system is presented as also being good for the individual, and as proof of this, here is something new and shiny. Sure, that shiny new thing is keeping tabs on you (and feeding all of that information back to the larger technological system), but it also lets you do things you genuinely could not do before.....The danger, however, was that “once one opts for the system no further choice remains.”