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I think it's more subtle. I think someone like Zuckerberg thinks the thing we interpret as the path to harm is actually the positive goal. What I see as atomiz
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
I think it's more subtle. I think someone like Zuckerberg thinks the thing we interpret as the path to harm is actually the positive goal.
What I see as atomization, isolation, alienation, detachment from the real physical-lived social world, the hyper-focus/engagement into the "meta" or "virtual" world, specifically geared around commercial / advertisement interests, the loss of privacy? All of this is turned on its head by people like him and represented as a kind of liberation, transcendence, a kind of connectedness. If you listen to him talk, he seems to actually believe this stuff.
And all the harms that might come to youth along the way is seen as either not-their-problem, or "worth it" for that goal.
Oh, and it just so happens to make them billions. Ideology is an amazing thing, and usually driven from the wallet.