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A comment on Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction Support Groups. Parent comment

Re:Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction S... by rosser on Monday May 21, 2018 @05:14PM (#17121880)
And a pretty common consensus among technologists seems to be, "That's their fault. They should have gone into STEM. Losers."

stacked against people, this narrative goes. Even being on the wrong end of the structurally inherent information asymmetry between seller and buyer is the buyer's fault, somehow.

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Re:Predatory Behavior Runs Rampant in Facebook’s Addiction S... by rosser on Monday May 21, 2018 @07:29PM (#17122677)
That should read "Despite the system being stacked against people."
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