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It's pure supply and demand. People want to endlessly scroll for content, that's what they will get.

onion2k 4y ago
People want to endlessly scroll for content. I don't think that's true. It's more that society makes it really hard to do anything else. Unless you're doing something to start a business, become an influencer, or because it's your life goal people look down on you for it. So people don't. They doomscroll instead, because you won't be challenged for that.
pixl97 4y ago
I mean heroin is in high demand, but I'm not exactly sure if it's a good idea to give everyone an unlimited diet of it.
- Liquix 4y ago
  Now imagine heroin had just been discovered ~10 years ago... and corporations were peddling it to average folks who didn't know any better... And it was ruining people's lives... Oh yeah, that happened! Bayer knew on some level it was highly addictive, but it was legal and the money was good. It won't get better until it's regulated.
  - walthamstow 4y ago
    Why Bayer? By your first sentence I thought you were going to say Purdue. I haven't read anything before about Bayer and opiates.
    - andsoitis 4y ago
      Bayer invented heroin. “A century ago, scientists at a German pharmaceutical firm investigated a chemical modification to morphine that made it more palatable as a cough suppressant. The Bayer Co., predecessor to today’s pharmaceutical giant, marketed its popular new remedy as “Heroin.” —- https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/from-cough-medicine-to-deadly-addiction-a-century/ https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/from-cough-medicine-t...
      - walthamstow 4y ago
        Thanks. I was only off base by about a century :)
      - datavirtue 4y ago
        As in, mom is a hero for giving morphine to her kids.
mattbrewsbytes 4y ago
I don't think people want to. People want to be successful, want to have good relationships, want to have fun, want to be entertained. I don't think people want to endlessly scroll for content, its not what people will say they set out to do. Some social media companies (and video game companies) figured out the dopamine feedback loop (probably via hiring psychologists) and have engineered that into their systems to keep suggesting content that feeds your emotions and keeps you on their platform looking at advertisements. Video games use it to keep you in a ever grinding loop to stay in their game like a hamster in a wheel and hope you don't realize you can leave at any time. People don't wake up and say "I want to waste 4 hours of my day watching stuff".

People want to endlessly scroll for content. I don't think that's true. It's more that society makes it really hard to do anything else. Unless you're doing something to start a business, become an influencer, or because it's your life goal people look down on you for it. So people don't. They doomscroll instead, because you won't be challenged for that.

pixl97 4y ago

I mean heroin is in high demand, but I'm not exactly sure if it's a good idea to give everyone an unlimited diet of it.

Liquix 4y ago
Now imagine heroin had just been discovered ~10 years ago... and corporations were peddling it to average folks who didn't know any better... And it was ruining people's lives... Oh yeah, that happened! Bayer knew on some level it was highly addictive, but it was legal and the money was good. It won't get better until it's regulated.
- walthamstow 4y ago
  Why Bayer? By your first sentence I thought you were going to say Purdue. I haven't read anything before about Bayer and opiates.
  - andsoitis 4y ago
    Bayer invented heroin. “A century ago, scientists at a German pharmaceutical firm investigated a chemical modification to morphine that made it more palatable as a cough suppressant. The Bayer Co., predecessor to today’s pharmaceutical giant, marketed its popular new remedy as “Heroin.” —- https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/from-cough-medicine-to-deadly-addiction-a-century/ https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/from-cough-medicine-t...
    - walthamstow 4y ago
      Thanks. I was only off base by about a century :)
    - datavirtue 4y ago
      As in, mom is a hero for giving morphine to her kids.

mattbrewsbytes 4y ago

I don't think people want to. People want to be successful, want to have good relationships, want to have fun, want to be entertained. I don't think people want to endlessly scroll for content, its not what people will say they set out to do. Some social media companies (and video game companies) figured out the dopamine feedback loop (probably via hiring psychologists) and have engineered that into their systems to keep suggesting content that feeds your emotions and keeps you on their platform looking at advertisements. Video games use it to keep you in a ever grinding loop to stay in their game like a hamster in a wheel and hope you don't realize you can leave at any time. People don't wake up and say "I want to waste 4 hours of my day watching stuff".