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Are we the baddies?

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693 points AndrewSwift | 13 comments | | HN request time: 0.753s | source | bottom
1. bigyabai ◴[] No.44478250[source]
> It’s not okay. Advertising is not okay. Price discrimination is not okay. Using big data, machine learning, and psychology to manipulate others at scale is not okay.

Stop participating. Hinge is towards the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, you'll do just fine without it.

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2. palmfacehn ◴[] No.44478377[source]
Collectivists generally start from premises which discount or even dismiss individual agency.
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3. HeartStrings ◴[] No.44478520[source]
What? Sex is a basic need in Maslow’s hierarchy.
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4. poorlyknit ◴[] No.44479314[source]
This is a cheap overgeneralization.
5. zdw ◴[] No.44481227[source]
Thanks for parroting https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
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6. salawat ◴[] No.44481480[source]
And yet individualists reach to secure those network effects while at the same time decrying they don't exist or will never work, anything to deny the advantage of a network to competing agents.
7. bigyabai ◴[] No.44482256[source]
I am literally replying to an article worded thusly:

  Someday, people will have to realize we live in a society.
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8. bigyabai ◴[] No.44482262[source]
Yes, and Hinge is not the sole human corollary of sexual intercourse. Ask your parents.
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9. bigyabai ◴[] No.44482366[source]
Libertarians and revolutionaries often start from premises that overestimate their worth relative to millions of other ordinary people.

Spend for two weeks in the woods, and you'll find out who brings you food when you're hungry (spoilers: nobody).

10. BrawnyBadger53 ◴[] No.44484339{3}[source]
This is obviously written in jest.
11. bragh ◴[] No.44487140[source]
Yes, but nobody ever died because of not having sex.
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12. HeartStrings ◴[] No.44497796{3}[source]
Except they did. Loneliness shortens life.
13. HeartStrings ◴[] No.44497800{3}[source]
Ever tried approaching people in actual real life not internet?