There was a time when US tech people would use this idea as a moral parable. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 But now we have

There was a time when US tech people would use this idea as a moral parable. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 But now we have current tech businesses basing their future growth strategies as much on better dark patterns as on actual value creation. Imagine a society using their best minds to figure out 'better' dark patterns, and counting the outcome from those patterns as GDP growth. That society is royally f'd on every level.