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  • antonim@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    So you understand the system very well, yet completely ignore the ethically dubious aspects of the system.

    People are not born desiring harmful garbage. They are, at least in part, taught, conditioned to desire it.

    When you say that a site “feeds you whatever you want”, you’re ignoring the chicken-or-the-egg pattern of desire and satisfaction on the market. The site teaches you want you want. Internet addiction and the ways in which contemporary media and tech affect your mind (most obviously by reducing people’s attention spans) are fairly well known today.

    Imagine a drug dealer who sells his garbage to the same person so much that they develop an addiction. With your logic, we can just blame the junkie who keeps returning to the dealer, while the dealer is pretty much innocent - surely it’s not his responsibility if someone else develops an addiction and destroys their life!