A big one for me not necessarily for “socialism” but for questioning the bog standard capitalist narrative was seeing how the quality of content often goes down

A big one for me not necessarily for “socialism” but for questioning the bog standard capitalist narrative was seeing how the quality of content often goes down when creator monetization is added on a platform. That’s not supposed to happen. Adding a way for people to make income is supposed to incentivize better content and allow people to invest in that content. Instead what you get is a flood of addictive and sensational / tabloid trash. … or another way of looking at it is that you do get “better” content but better is not defined in a way that truly benefits anyone. YouTube is the most dramatic example. The quality of the whole platform tanked hard when monetization was added. After seeing this a few times I have started noticing it everywhere. The profit motive just doesn’t incentivize quality the way we are taught that it should. It can when the incentives align but they often do not. Another common example is actual reductions in quality to drive more spending like engineered obsolescence or “nerfing” software to drive lock in. The incentive is to produce an inferior product since that is most profitable. This doesn’t mean I think the answer is a government bureaucracy running everything like a single monopoly. That leads to a whole other set of perverse incentives and an inability to go elsewhere.