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We can't simply act like social platforms and apps aren't the primary enablers and profiteers in this ecosystem. Instead of hiring honest tech visionaries, they hire social psychologists to design features that waste time and work like slot machines, while giving little value to users just trying to earn a living or make a name for themselves. These platforms also have no incentive to help anyone to succeed naturally/organically because they also conflictingly sell ad space.

Everything about most modern social media is phony, they even ratio criticism and brigade against truth about their schemes and negative news both on and off their own platforms.

Even Elon spent 44 Billion to dominate the attention game and it didn't work out well for him. There simply can't be a monopoly on attention, but tech is always trying to make it happen in the most underhanded ways, and then turning to profiting from deception when they can't keep it together.