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>taking advantage of the situation for their own personal benefit: And therein lies the problem. A subset of people get a benefit from engaging in this behavi
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>taking advantage of the situation for their own personal benefit:
And therein lies the problem. A subset of people get a benefit from engaging in this behavior. So of course they do it at every opportunity.
You get what you incentivize.
Until the outcome is so frequently a net negative (however slight) in so many cases that the behavior is marginalized to a negligibly small number of people/settings the behavior will persist in enough volume to be worth caring about.
- Nextgrid 5y ago> You get what you incentivize. The problem is that a large part of the tech industry nowadays relies on "engagement" aka monetizing user attention for the benefit of advertisers, thus extremely vulnerable to public opinion (the advertisers themselves would engage in this behavior, thus companies that supply them must also conform to it). The entire industry is on thin ice already so it makes sense for everyone to play it safe even though it just reinforces the feedback loop even more. This is why this behavior is rarely seen in other industries that make the bulk of their money on a tangible output, both because the output is less fungible/replaceable as well as those industries' employees typically having less time to waste engaging in bullshit.