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If you're suggesting that accidently additive products and services be banned from use for the public good then I'm in 100% agreement. What I'm not sure of is h
by cjbgkagh 2y ago
If you're suggesting that accidently additive products and services be banned from use for the public good then I'm in 100% agreement. What I'm not sure of is how that could possibly be reliably achieved. I guess 'sin' taxes would a blend of freedom and prohibition but then you get a government that depends on the sin for it's revenue which sets up a rather perverse incentive. Like an alcohol tax in Russia, or indulgences for the Catholic church.
TikTok is slowly destroying my sisters life and there is nothing anyone can do about it since she does not think it's a problem and she is an adult.
- mrguyorama 2y ago>accidently additive Zynga and King do not hire psychologists because their products are "accidentally" addictive. None of this shit is "accidentally" addictive. They explicitly track "engagement" and screen time as metrics to increase. Addictivity is not an accident! This isn't like with drugs where we just pulled a chemical that already existed out of nature and it just happens to press the same pleasure center buttons as chemicals in our brain. These companies make their products addicting and addictive on purpose. It is the intended goal of most businesses today.
- cjbgkagh 2y agoThe accidentally addictive was purely to make it clear that intent is not required to be shown for a ban, only outcome. Accidentally or accidentally on purpose it does not matter.