Capitalism Gone Wrong
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Capitalism Gone Wrong
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#2"There is nothing wrong with capitalism, but..."
- said before any potential criticism of capitalism. In USA, you shall not criticize the Profit.
"peace be upon him"
- said after any mention of Mohammad. In Saudi Arabia, you shall not criticize the Prophet.
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#3It's not capitalism gone wrong. It's a great example of a historic success of capitalism.
You can't expect capitalism to solve your addiction problems.
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#4I agree with everything the article says. I think there are two questions that we should be asking.
1. Can we point to a time when Capitalism peaked in terms of a balance of maximal benefit for as many people as possible? In my lifetime, it was somewhere in the late 1990s and early 2000s. No singular answer but something better exists than where we are now.
2. How do we rewind capitalism to that point?
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#5> "Meta did not adequately assess the risks of its addictive design on the physical and mental wellbeing of users" ...
ROFLMAO! They absolutely did adequately "assess the risks" and then decided "Meh... Who cares? Do it anyway!"
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#6It's not capitalism gone wrong. It's a great example of a historic success of capitalism. You can't expect capitalism to solve your addiction problems.
In fact, you should expect capitalism to exploit your addiction problems in pursuit of profit. That's what it does...
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#7It's not capitalism gone wrong. It's a great example of a historic success of capitalism. You can't expect capitalism to solve your addiction problems.
> "You can't expect capitalism to solve your addiction problems."
You can hope and wish that they would have at least enough ethics to not actively abuse psychology and the way human brains are hard-wired to totally take unfair advantage of those facts to extract maximum profit for a tiny handful of humanity at the expense of everyone everywhere pretty much.
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#8> I wonder how that time is being spent. Doomscrolling?
I hate, doom scrolling with a passion. And still I am doing it from time to time, On reddit, youtube shorts or even a little bit on HN. It just seems like wasting time by being bombarded with stimuli.
On one hand I give my self the fault, weak will power and missing volition to change it. On the other it true that the environment has real impact on my behavior. Maybe simply blocking reddit and shorts is the best approach.
But I dont know.
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#9It's not capitalism gone wrong. It's a great example of a historic success of capitalism. You can't expect capitalism to solve your addiction problems.
Should it be allowed to intentionally make addiction problems worse?
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#10It's not capitalism gone wrong. It's a great example of a historic success of capitalism. You can't expect capitalism to solve your addiction problems.
Even if you are not the one addicted, other people’s addiction problems are still your problems. Being blind to that fact makes you both complicit in it and vulnerable to it.