It’s not a coincidence that Facebook profited off radicalization and sowing violence and insurrection.
This system is tuned, specifically, to reward destructive behavior and corporations that intentionally and ruthlessly ignore human consequences.
This system is tuned, specifically, to reward destructive behavior and corporations that intentionally and ruthlessly ignore human consequences.
To fully grasp what Facebook has done and why it has done it, you also have to look elsewhere, to corporations that poison customers, that destroy the environment, that lie and cover up even when they know full and well they’re wreaking unbelievable damage.
This is systemic.
This is systemic.
Facebook and other social media poison society and radicalize their users just as other corporations relentlessly destroy the world.
It’s the very nature of the corporate system that needs addressed, its lawless and unethical, unquestionably cruel, nature that needs changed.
It’s the very nature of the corporate system that needs addressed, its lawless and unethical, unquestionably cruel, nature that needs changed.
What neoliberalism did by unleashing the corporation, by dismantling every roadblock and regulation, was to release a bloodthirsty and thoughtless monster onto the world. That it would come to destroy public life, democracy, and reality itself was an inevitability.
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