How society is constructed, how our food supply has co-opted our satiety instincts, how advertising works and how social media and other dopamine inducing passi

How society is constructed, how our food supply has co-opted our satiety instincts, how advertising works and how social media and other dopamine inducing passive activities have co-opted our brains and willpower play no role in your Ayn Randian fantasy world where each person can just exercise willpower to combat these ills. You are wrong and the evidence is quite clear. Humans did not suddenly lose willpower in the last few decades. Most rich nations have seen a rise in obesity with Americans leading the way. Loneliness is on the rise and while you personally are immune to the aforementioned ills most people aren’t. Dark patterns work because we aren’t always vigilant. For instance, Google knows we don’t always read the instructions perfectly and we are easily duped, statistically speaking, to do things that we didn’t mean to do. There are dark patterns so to speak in the way our society is constructed.