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> It's optimized for profit. It wasn’t optimized for profit 30 years ago..?
by randmeerkat 2y ago
> It's optimized for profit.
It wasn’t optimized for profit 30 years ago..?
- euroderf 2y agoMaybe back then the concept of "stakeholders" was not bandied about quite as cynically.
- akira2501 2y agoIt wasn't as corrupt. Anti trust laws and laws separating banks from investment firms were active and enforced. Our legislature sure hasn't dwindled in productivity.
- Lammy 2y agoIt wasn't technologically possible to have such a tight feedback loop 30 years ago. We realized the Human Instrumentality Project around 2013 and now every-goddamn-thing spies on us at all times so markets can react in real-time like the ultimate jealous controlling spouse — “Where are you going? Who else will be there? What are you talking about?”
- rbanffy 2y agoIt wasn’t as perfectly tuned by machines of infinite knowledge and calibrated individually for every person over and over until they can no longer do anything other than generate a profit for the advertisers. Some exaggeration above, but less than would be fair.