I taught business ethnics for MBAs when i was in graduate school.

The only ‘ethics’ they learned was ‘maximize shareholder value at any price’. They spent an entire semester learning to to argue why murdering people and abusing people was morally justified as long as the share price goes up. That was the curriculum. Nothing else mattered.

the reality is that incompetent managers love to blame their employees for not doing shit they never told them to do.

it’s a fad in terms of the hype and the superstition.

it won’t go away. it will just become boring and mostly a business to business concern that is invisible to the end consumer. just like every other big fad of the past 20 years. ‘big data’, ‘crypto’, etc.

5 years ago everyone was suddenly a ‘data scientist’. where are they now? yeah… exactly.

that’s not fun and dramatic and clickbaity though

yes, yes, and yes.

and i no longer like any of those things.

yeah. the platforms aren’t so bad in and of themselves, it’s the engagement algorithms that turn everything to shit.

just like IG, YT, video/music stremaing etc. you could stumble upon random and interesting shit… now the algo is just trying to shove kendrick lamar and joe rogan at me none stop because that is what is ‘popular’ and whatever shitty movie that netflix is trying to promote.

browsing is dead and search is also mostly broken. you can’t even effectively search for shit anymore.

the only place i can freely browse anymore is my local library. and discover lots of cool things. that experience on the internet is dead.

the vast majority of nutbags with low key mental issues i meet are social media addicts who furiously want to bring their ‘curated’ image into the real world and force others to worship them.

the others nutbags are homeless folks.

irrational belief based on fantasy fuels people to action a lot more than rational belief based in reality.

because the former is exciting and meaningful, the latter is boring and mundane.

hence why the crazies tend to believe in cabal conspiracies of evil people whom they must fight against. whereas your average voter is like ‘who do i want to have a beer with and make me feel like i’m doing better financially… i’ll vote him’

why free when you can make money?

my siblings managed to keep their kids away from smartphones until 4th grade. And even that was a struggle.

sadly it just falls into the camp of ‘everyone else is doing it’. and if your kid isn’t they will be socially ostracized.

Children copy their parents.

Yes, also to fluff up the dataset for the AI sale.

I got it as well. My accounts were banned… and then all the sudden an IPO comes along and the are unsuspended… i went back in and redacted my accounts that got the email.