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Yup. They make things we all enjoy and they dress casual... But they're cold hearted business people. I'm not gonna say they're "evil" but they're no different from big banks, pharma ect. Trying to be my "buddy" and a "bro"(as a workplace culture) doesn't fool me.

Exactly. They're so delighted they've engineered such efficient products, battle tested through every A/B scenario possible and decades of behaviorist principles, the nagging doubts about impacts are easy to discount. The stock options help quell consiences too.

"Big tobacco for the mind"... I like that. I mean, that could be something to "run on" later. If this country has a "later" that is.

Surely Silicon Valley has invented some worthy things, but the recent successes seem to fall under either "Let me addict you to your own vanity and show you ads." or "Let's reinvent an existing public good but exclude poor people."

It’s the American way. Make stuff. Advertise stuff in a way that makes people think they can’t live without the stuff. Make money off selling the stuff. Who’s surprised? Not me. And not @mtaibbi I’m sure.

Happy to experience the golden age of the Internet, before everything was about getting your info, needing a password, an email, an account. When I got my latest device, the start up took an hour for "security" whereby I then had none. #fuckingcookies