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100 years from now the descendants of the engineers who work at Big Tech will be looked upon by their descendants with the same shame that people nowadays look

100 years from now the descendants of the engineers who work at Big Tech will be looked upon by their descendants with the same shame that people nowadays look at ancestors who were involved in tobacco.

2OEH8eoCRo0 5mo ago
I don't think it will take 100 years, the world is already souring on big tech.
colechristensen 5mo ago
>people nowadays look at ancestors who were involved in tobacco Huh? Does anyone actually care any more? The kind of moralizing busybodies that spend their time shaming the tobacco industry are few and far between.
- adi_kurian 5mo ago
  As someone who had a brief stint consulting for Big Tobacco, I can assure you that people care a lot. RJ Reynolds does not have their pick of the most elite graduates. Most of them would be ashamed to tell their friends and family, no matter the salary.
- AngryData 5mo ago
  Yeah I don't know why people are downvoting. Not for one second would I or anybody I know care about someone in the family having been a tobacco farmer any more than they would care about someone growing alfalfa.
selectively 5mo ago
This is an outrageously dumb thing to say. BIg Tobacco knowingly sold a product that physically addicted (the only real form of addiction) its users and killed them. Facebook is not that.
- vrganj 5mo ago
  Wellll.... https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/18/nx-s1-5436951/jama-screens-teens-addiction-suicide-abcd https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/18/nx...
- treyd 5mo ago
  Facebook ran experiments on on unknowing teenage girls to study how being shown negative content leads to negative mental health outcomes, which has lead to suicide.
- b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
  >the only real form of addiction gonna need a citation on that one, dawg
- dijksterhuis 5mo ago
  > physically addicted (the only real form of addiction) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26318318221116042 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26318318221116042 snippet from the abstract > Contrary to the earlier notion that addiction is predominantly a substance dependency, research now suggests that any source or experience capable of stimulating an individual has addictive potential. This has led to a paradigm shift in the psychiatric understanding of behavioural addictions. dopamine, the little “hit” you get on social media sites or when you get a “ping”, has a massive role to play in behavioural addictions. and with behavioural addiction it basically causes the same stuff in the brain that cocaine etc does (very simplified explanation). also, i’m a recovering drug addict. and i can tell you for sure from my lived experience that addiction is definitely not limited to physical stuff like drugs. xD
- ambicapter 5mo ago
  Depression is not death, but it is still a loss of life.
  - selectively 5mo ago
    No.

2OEH8eoCRo0 5mo ago

I don't think it will take 100 years, the world is already souring on big tech.

colechristensen 5mo ago

>people nowadays look at ancestors who were involved in tobacco Huh? Does anyone actually care any more? The kind of moralizing busybodies that spend their time shaming the tobacco industry are few and far between.

adi_kurian 5mo ago
As someone who had a brief stint consulting for Big Tobacco, I can assure you that people care a lot. RJ Reynolds does not have their pick of the most elite graduates. Most of them would be ashamed to tell their friends and family, no matter the salary.
AngryData 5mo ago
Yeah I don't know why people are downvoting. Not for one second would I or anybody I know care about someone in the family having been a tobacco farmer any more than they would care about someone growing alfalfa.

selectively 5mo ago

This is an outrageously dumb thing to say. BIg Tobacco knowingly sold a product that physically addicted (the only real form of addiction) its users and killed them. Facebook is not that.

vrganj 5mo ago
Wellll.... https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/18/nx-s1-5436951/jama-screens-teens-addiction-suicide-abcd https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/18/nx...
treyd 5mo ago
Facebook ran experiments on on unknowing teenage girls to study how being shown negative content leads to negative mental health outcomes, which has lead to suicide.
b00ty4breakfast 5mo ago
>the only real form of addiction gonna need a citation on that one, dawg
dijksterhuis 5mo ago
> physically addicted (the only real form of addiction) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26318318221116042 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26318318221116042 snippet from the abstract > Contrary to the earlier notion that addiction is predominantly a substance dependency, research now suggests that any source or experience capable of stimulating an individual has addictive potential. This has led to a paradigm shift in the psychiatric understanding of behavioural addictions. dopamine, the little “hit” you get on social media sites or when you get a “ping”, has a massive role to play in behavioural addictions. and with behavioural addiction it basically causes the same stuff in the brain that cocaine etc does (very simplified explanation). also, i’m a recovering drug addict. and i can tell you for sure from my lived experience that addiction is definitely not limited to physical stuff like drugs. xD
ambicapter 5mo ago
Depression is not death, but it is still a loss of life.
- selectively 5mo ago
  No.