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Even if a company deliberately avoided dark patterns, adopted an idealistic "don't be evil" approach, is it inevitable that either: 1. To maximize profit, it s
by atleastoptimal 3y ago
Even if a company deliberately avoided dark patterns, adopted an idealistic "don't be evil" approach, is it inevitable that either:
1. To maximize profit, it sacrifices that approach and becomes evil
2. It fails to compete with other companies which do use dark patterns to maximize profit
- generic92034 3y agoI do not think this is true in all cases. The whole platform economy has so little to fear from actual competition that they could afford to avoid dark patterns and overall take a small loss in profitability. It is only that they do not want to eat even the small loss.
- runamok 3y agoI disagree. Compare Walmart and Costco on a lot of their processes and practices around vendors and employees and I think you can find some stark differences.
- cumshitpiss 3y ago[dead]
- boringuser2 3y agoThat's why government enforcement is wildly considered the norm in cases where corporate incentive to abuse must be attenuated.