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I wonder how much your mind would have to distort reality for you to believe you're providing the world with a good service when you're at the helm of Twitter o
by c7DJTLrn 5y ago
I wonder how much your mind would have to distort reality for you to believe you're providing the world with a good service when you're at the helm of Twitter or Facebook.
- rtkwe 5y agoThere's a fair amount of motivation to find a reason to believe it's a "the good out weighs the bad" situation. For starters they're making incredible amounts of money and then there's the desire to not think you're doing something bad.
- Nasrudith 5y agoYou just need to respect human agency instead of thinking you inherently know better than the world how to use it. It is a sentiment which is very out of current zeitgeist with its "boy who cried dystopia" bent.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoHow do gigantic globe-spanning ad machines "respect human agency"?
- jabedude 5y agoI can see the argument. Nothing forces an individual to click on or engage with an advertisement
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoI expect it's quite easy; you believe that you're connecting people and that this is a good thing, and then you ignore the undesirable second-order effects of how you're doing it.