Will future generations look at how big corporations do business today like drug dealers - have a product and then try and hijack the brain into continuously wanting or using said product - like how medical herion and cocaine were used as acceptable medical treatments in , I hopefully, assume ignorance
I mean maybe it won’t matter in the future, but was thinking how today’s society seems to be in an “addiction” culture. I mean in a sense that research is done into how to keep people engaged and hooked onto something to control how your brain perceives things and then profit off it like some drug dealer making their drugs more addictive to retain and expand their client list.
Writing it I feel like some conspiracy nut calling corpo - drug dealers, but I look at these monetization schemes, manipulations of “big savings”, data harvesting and manipulation and how actions are taken to narrow one’s view towards a specific option.
It all seems like it tries to draw you in and then once its got you tries get you to “do one more hit”.
Its not conspiracy, its true.
Through either conscious design, or purely through the fact that coincidentally addictive designs are going to get higher engagement and therefore more likely to succeed, the vast majority of the economy is built around the rapid and repetitive consumption.
It bleeds people dry, boosts disinformation and outrage, and has severe psychological and neurological impacts on the people it affects.
Its seriously one of the worst things about modern society, and is even worse when combined with other issues we as a society face.
I honestly hope we can survive long enough to shift focus as a society, hopefully then we will see the current in the way we see the past