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One may as well have said the same things about cigarettes up through the 1960s. Sometimes we do things against our best interests. Sometimes it's really, really bad for us. Sometimes it's painful and deadly.
Humans aren't rational creatures.
The desire to belong is primal, and strong.
And it served us well for millennia. In a lot of ways, it made us who we are.
Civilizations, societies, communities. The Apollo program. The National Park Service. Emancipation. Everything good we're capable of as a species comes from working together.
The mass weaponization of it is, of course, a problem.
Ah, I think what you're looking at there is called "capitalism." It's what enables selfish anti-social/sociopathic behavior without triggering our societal inclination to kick them out.
Nah, you've got cause and effect flipped. Know what we used to do when sociopaths did too much sociopathic stuff? We made the sociopaths leave. Now they have too much money, so we can't effectively do that anymore.
Of course, yes, they did create that system. But they created it so that they could retain the benefits of the society without contributing to it meaningfully.
Wait, are you calling me a "bootlicker?" When have I ever been anything but critical about the oligarchs running our society?
Yeesh. The Internet be wild, y'all.
That's a truism, but it's not justification for allowing it to happen. People being naturally irrational is not an excuse to continue being irrational.
And if it makes people feel uncomfortable to be reminded that they're choosing to be abused by billionaires for free, then good. Get uncomfortable. I hope they feel uncomfortable every time they scroll Facebook. I hope they feel a little shame every time they complain about housing prices on Instagram, because clearly, knowingly having their worst impulses monetized for the benefit of the absurdly wealthy isn't enough.
It is a justification, actually, because other people are using it against them to extract value for themselves. Users of corporate social media are no more responsible for their addictions than alcoholics are. Some people break it, sure. And some people use it without developing an addiction. But those aren't the people we're talking about here.