It is not capitalism and this is not me defending it, but rather pointing out that it is how humanity naturally seems to structure itself. The narcissist / psychopaths / sociopaths tend to get into “leadership” positions and the dumb folks idolize and empower them and thus we end up with the smartest people writing a few paragraphs for the manager who is socially savvy but suffers from the Dunning Kruger Effect. This happens in all economic and political systems including Capitalism and Communism as the Sam people tend to get into positions of power.

Or cannot see it due to the Dunning Kruger Effect. It is very strong in some.

Agree. The dumb people out of necessity need to be in groups and those groups are lead by narcissists/ psychopaths / sociopaths who then weaponize the groups ignorance to exploit them for their own gain while using shame and worse to keep the group inline. It leads to the world being led by the wrong people and while we have managed fairly well by most metrics, it is an absolute thorn in the side of humanity that carries existential risks. I sure hope we can change things so that the smartest, kindest people lead instead. Maybe as the power of the group is certainly being eroded in part due to AI allowing smart individuals to climb quietly higher into leadership roles that are not forceful but rather truly leading. We will see. I am hopeful change is coming or we end up destroying everything. Seems like it is on a knife’s edge and has been since we invented nukes.

Dunning Kruger Effect is strong in Zuck.

It is for the Billionaire class but not everyone else. Would you not agree?

I am a solo developer on some of these platforms and have to do an annual privacy evaluation which I find painful as the company taking up my valuable time to answer all their BS questions, are the ones breaking privacy. Insane. Further, I had to pay $100 annually to the UK privacy commission as it is required for all UK companies which is also deeply ironic as the same government is requiring you to submit ID for some websites which has made the privacy leaks even more damaging.

As a solo developer I am feeling the brunt of the privacy charades while the big companies just continue to violate privacy unchecked. I have zero desire or intentions to break anyone’s privacy an ask for no information from anyone outside of pulling down their profile to sign in as is required to determine app permission. That is it. No phone numbers, no real names, no biometrics, no photos of ID or anything outside of those username on that platform but I am burdened as if I was collecting all of this and as if I was the one breaking privacy. This world is mental.

Looks like Zuck is all in and has no choice but to support evil, because if/when the evil collapses, so does Zuck. Must be stressful for him as history has shown that this behaviour eventually catches up to them. Sadly, some make it too old age and run entire countries before it catches up which causes a lot of unnecessary suffering.

Same here. Canadian living in Vietnam and really could never go back to winters.

I get the network effect, but there was a very clear line on Twitter and anyone still there are absolutely part of the problem no matter their justification.

I just turn on a room fan blowing my way or the hood fan and chop nearby.

His smartest employees rage quit as Zuck and his empire are brain dead hard to reason with and steer in logical directions as Zuck is the emperor with no clothes.

This is just a way to give Trump money as he can play this like a fiddle. Same goes for any one person in the bet who has autonomous control over the bet situation. So dumb.

1990s BBS/modem is not online 1980s Bookstore/Library does not have the book I need.

Just more evidence that Apple is not that concerned about privacy as this is a hole they absolutely could close.

Hmmm Hmmm

Oddly enough, this is a real thing more or less in Asia. Red bean inside of a baked good.

Climate deniers. Way too many bots and real people in this camp. So unsettling and anger inducing.

Ironically the way to win was to just not play.

PFAS

This is accurate and the fact that so few feel this way, really does provide clues as to why the USA has become suck an evil monster.