It sometimes isn't, but why did they put 3 white dudes in charge of messing with someone's life when they know that's the prevailing stereotype of SV engineers?
Could it be that they were trying to capitalize on that stereotype for shock value? I'd think so.
Maybe because they earnt their position through merit? Maybe because white males are still a majority of the work force in Google, Facebook, and may more? The probability of picking 3 random senior people who are white are not that slim.
I as an Asian man take issue that just because you see white people in the show and automatically assume what the show has to say is not representative of whats happening in the Ad-industry. You could literally replace any color of race and claim it is not representative and disregard the bigger message here. This is a classic reverse-racism.
They earned the position of representing a wildly exaggerated view of how tech companies influence their users?
Give me a break, this show was just dumb. It added no value to the conversation around tech companies.
Even if the person taking the loss started at 100 and ended up at 80, while the person making the gain started at 20 and ended up at 40.
You’re still going to feel persecuted at 80 because of the relative loss. The human mind is super resilient and adaptable. That can be less helpful when it’s adapting to good things, making it the new baseline normal.
One thing I think most people can agree on: relative to recent history, 2020 has been a pretty bad year.
I agree it was cringy but the shows intent wasn't bad.
The show, up until I stopped watching, felt like slow-rolling click bait.
I'm sorry, but that show was really, really dumb and unrealistic and I couldn't sit through it.
3 engineers (notably: cringey white dudes) are never following one single user and controlling his interactions like that and it did more harm than good by pretending it works that way.
This implies someone is directly accountable, showing up to work every day and fucking with people's attention regularly, when in reality, it's soulless machines programmed to do this while the engineers are several degrees away from inflicting harm like this.
That's what makes it so dangerous -- not that tech companies have unlimited money to build situation rooms dedicated to following single users around.