Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
This is what makes me think we’re doomed; you can explain and demonstrate to people how Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, reddit, etc are manipulating them and they’ll agree with you; but they keep using them anyways.
It’s a little bit like Amazon or Walmart; people feel like they’re stuck using it and they have to be shown an alternative and convinced that the short term pain is worth the long term benefits.
This is what makes me think we’re doomed; you can explain and demonstrate to people how Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, reddit, etc are manipulating them and they’ll agree with you; but they keep using them anyways.
It’s a little bit like Amazon or Walmart; people feel like they’re stuck using it and they have to be shown an alternative and convinced that the short term pain is worth the long term benefits.