We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video]

Re:We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ad... by kjrose on Sunday December 10, 2017 @10:23AM (#15891765)

Essentially the moment our society had food, housing and basic necessities guaranteed pretty much by default. The optimal way for people to make money is advertising. If we can automate it so that we increase clicks (a measure for demand) even artificially then of course that is what will be done until we discover that has no long term use.

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Re:We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ad... by gboudrias on Sunday December 10, 2017 @10:50AM (#15891902)

If food and housing were guaranteed, there would be no homelessness and losing your job wouldn't be stressful. It's true that we can have more now but we still always have to worry about falling down to nothing again.

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Re:We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ad... by kjrose on Sunday December 10, 2017 @04:04PM (#15893490)

Let me clarify. I mean for all intents and purposes we don’t have a vast majority of the population working in industries that would be essential for life and well being but rather producing goods which are not really needed but wanted and thus need to be marketed for people to want them.

Mea culpa for a lack of clarity.

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Re:We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ad... by notduncansmith on Sunday December 10, 2017 @11:33AM (#15892117)

It’s great that you have food, housing and basic necessities, but that is not the “default” experience and we have a lot of work to do before it is.

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