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I wouldn't think HN would find the thesis as applied to big tech so disagreeable, since people here have frequently say the same thing. For a while it seemed li

by syrrim 5y ago

I wouldn't think HN would find the thesis as applied to big tech so disagreeable, since people here have frequently say the same thing. For a while it seemed like every week there was a thread about all the people deleting their facebook account. The distinction with oil, or any other sort of industry for that matter, is that the latter at least produces something that is useful to people, whereas gambling largely does not. I found the lack of attention paid to big tech strange as well, but I could hardly complain, seeing as we've seen that discussion many times over, whereas the historical context regarding casinos was quite new to me.

MisterBastahrd 5y ago
The problem with the article is that it's written like an 11 year old was given a topic and she wrote an essay about the thing she was interested in at the time, then tried to shoehorn the actual topic in there. People want to complain about Big Tech? Fine. Have some actual substance to your argument instead of saying something like "this guy who was barely Indian managed to coerce steel-factory landowners to sell them their land, and because they use A-B testing, that's why Big Tech is bad." It's a stupid article.