If you doubt how effective surveillance capitalism is at stochastic mind control, look no further than the weaponization of ignorance in places like this. All

If you doubt how effective surveillance capitalism is at stochastic mind control, look no further than the weaponization of ignorance in places like this. All that is required is voting not according to manufactured cultural issues, but in accord with widely shared values and common interests. We can have and used to have a capitalism which self-moderated, and with sufficient surplus as in the post-WWII years, gains were widely shared. Society wasn't perfect but shit was moving in the right direction. Then came Reagan, deregulation, and the decades-long project by the right of fomenting ignorance and maintaining it through unchecked propoganda. Today, under surveillance capitalism, all the tools are in place to continue driving ignorance and weaponizing it against those responsible for the loss of prosperity, opportunity, social welfare net, and common infrastructure, that were considered the definition of the American Dream. People have been made ignorant, encourage to be righteous, made fearful and angry, and it's worked. Bw, the reason Meta can pay so well is that it's been uniquely successful in accelerating and profiteering off this dystopian nightmare. Don't kid yourself if you work there what you're contributing to.