Terms of service are slavery contracts that presume all persons possess the means to process and competently understand the choices they make. The acceptance of these agreements is the legal forfeiture of citizenship and democracy. This is the simplified core issue of present Western society. Ultimately, people have proven that they will sell democracy and citizenship to anyone willing to create digital novelties. This has normalized and funded exploitation and the US party of open legislative loopholes for criminals.
The fact that it pays to be an awful person shows that there is just something fundamentally wrong with our society. Possibly our species.
j4k3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
killabeezio@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I mean the human species is a virus
SoupBrick@yiffit.net 1 month ago
I would say society, due to having money being displayed as success and intelligence, regardless of the process by which they make that money.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sure, but also think of all the horrible people throughout history that clawed their way to power and ruled both ruthlessly and successfully.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would blame that on outliers and survivorship bias. We don’t exactly care about the 100,000’s of years of relatively peaceful human history. There’s a reason “may you live in interesting times,” is a curse. We live in interesting times.
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Peaceful relative to what? Historically, war and conflict has been the norm.
Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
My Google news feed thing on my phone constantly has these bullshit side hustle articles. I hate everything about them