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by thr0wawayf00 1528 days ago
> And the reasons adults suck at this is just that: because we were never taught to deal with it, because our schools curriculae are in complete disconnect of the world we've built within the last 40 years.

Some companies see this as “innovation”: coming up with new ways to advertise, target, and stick to consumers. The problem with the “schools are behind” argument is that this is how the system is designed and it will always be this way.

Computer Science is a good example of this. It takes years for newer technologies to get into CS curriculum. By the time curriculum is updated to educate kids on phone addiction, there will already be a newer and more insidious method to target kids that didn’t make it into the curriculum.
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rglullis 1528 days ago
> It takes years for newer technologies to get into CS curriculum.

The problem is not the technology. The problem is how they are used, and ethics is something that does not change - or at least changes at a much lower pace.

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thr0wawayf00 1528 days ago
If there's a profit incentive to misuse a particular technology, it will be misused. Ethics is always secondary to profit in a market system. If ethics superseded profit, capitalism never would've taken off.
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rglullis 1528 days ago
Ethical violations happen no matter the economic system, and capitalism (market dynamics) at least provide a mechanism for self-correction.

Your response may help you jerk off to your righteousness, but it does not give anything actionable and it does not provide any type of solution to solve the problem. Can you try again, please?

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yunwal 1528 days ago
There are other methods of self-correction (e.g. social pressure) that have been much more effective over the long run. Now you might say, "there's nothing interfering with social pressure in capitalism, you can have competitive markets with social pressure". But often, companies must either accept ethical violations or be out-competed in a competitive marketplace.
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rglullis 1528 days ago
> But often, companies must either accept ethical violations

"Companies" can not do anything, except be used by unethical people at the top as an excuse for their deeds.

This is not an issue of Capitalism, but of Corporativism. If you want to fight, at least we should be clear about what is the real enemy.

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