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by entech 21 days ago
This comparison surprises me. There's a difference between content people like organically and content engineered by an army of psychologists to exploit our primal responses.

It's like comparing a baker whose apple pie people genuinely liked and bought, to a company that laced their pie with cocaine to create physical dependency, then bribed stores to stock only theirs for a while.