I wonder which generation made it so that the internet and technology were all bottom feeding black box products that depend on psychological manipulation and addiction. I wonder which generation were the founders of modern social media platforms that have warped peoples perception of reality to profit off of?

[–] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I wonder which generation made it so that the internet and technology were all bottom feeding black box products that depend on psychological manipulation and addiction.

It's millenials. Zuckerberg is 41. Altman is 40. But that just shows that capitalism ruins everything and every generation has it's shitty capitalists(all of them).

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 23 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I always had people be like "Look how generous these tech companies are giving away free computers to elementary schools." And I was, even as a child like, 'Yeah its real generous to get someone to become familiar with your product when they are young, so when they buy things or ask their parents to buy things, they naturally gravitate to your product."

Generous my ass.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 11 points 11 hours ago

FSF already tackled this decades ago (https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-why.html#content). The ed-tech takeover of schools has been an effort not spearheaded by teachers and educators but by management and C-suites collaborating with each other.

Now people don't know how document typesetting works, all they know is Google Docs.