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Are we the baddies?

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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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1. palmfacehn ◴[] No.44478377[source]
Collectivists generally start from premises which discount or even dismiss individual agency.
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2. poorlyknit ◴[] No.44479314[source]
This is a cheap overgeneralization.
3. 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.
4. 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).