I find dark pattern doesn't lend it the gravity it deserves - when you say "dark pattern" I think of sneaky ways to sign you up for mailing lists, or sneaky way

I find dark pattern doesn't lend it the gravity it deserves - when you say "dark pattern" I think of sneaky ways to sign you up for mailing lists, or sneaky ways to get you to click on more ads. Which is to say, relatively low-damage varieties of evil. It's a whole different ball game when you're using said patterns to directly extract money from people's bank accounts. It's a little like calling a bank robbery "shoplifting". I feel like extremely egregious violations of basic morals and ethics shouldn't be described with the same word we use to describe garden variety sketchy practices.