[remarkEon]

Breaking up Google and Meta would be a huge boon to all of us. Think of all the extremely intelligent and driven people who are being paid dump trucks of money to build internet surveillance or psychological manipulation technology at scale.

They could be working on so, so many more interesting and important problems.

[biztos]

I'm sure there are some extremely intelligent and driven people working on internet surveillance or psychological manipulation, but if the only reason they're doing it is for the dump-trucks of money then I have zero confidence they will go work on interesting and important problems should MetaGoo somehow tank.

They'll just go wherever the largest dump-trucks are offered. Because they already did that, and it made them relatively wealthy, and yet there they still are.

[remarkEon]

I don’t disagree with you, but the destruction of those particular business models would still be a net good for society, no? And these people, ostensibly smart and driven, would seek their dump trucks somewhere else. It’s a guess that those other places with the dump trucks up for grabs are better then Metagoo, but I’ll take it.