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It feels like the purpose of most communication on the internet has changed from sharing an idea to making a buck.

Dont the big money makers hire psychologists to help them figure out how to 'drive user engagement'?

I feel like there is a difference between letting your kid browse through a library that contains the anarchist cookbook and letting your kid loose in a casino which I think maps to old internet/new internet. Old internet had dangerous information but individuals tended to be treated as an end in themselves, new internet tends to treat individuals as a means to an end.