It's so crazy that it's normalized to let rich people weaponize billions of dollars of human psychology to put hooks in your brain so regular workers will make them richer. Like tf this is a crime.
it's crazy, but not especially so. it's no more crazy than the destruction of the ecosystem. in fact, i'd say it's the exact same phenomenon.
human attention is a scarce resource and capitalism just pisses it away for a slight increase in quarterly profits, while driving the entire economy into a death spiral of more and more ads (just to keep up with everyone else).
It's so crazy that it's normalized to let rich people weaponize billions of dollars of human psychology to put hooks in your brain so regular workers will make them richer. Like tf this is a crime.
Bill Hicks was right
it's crazy, but not especially so. it's no more crazy than the destruction of the ecosystem. in fact, i'd say it's the exact same phenomenon.
human attention is a scarce resource and capitalism just pisses it away for a slight increase in quarterly profits, while driving the entire economy into a death spiral of more and more ads (just to keep up with everyone else).