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Re:Why is China smashing its tech industry? by Rapzid on Monday August 02, 2021 @11:30AM (#28037938)
> economy predicated on negative-value-add activities like clicking heart icons on photos

I think you have this backwards. These social networks are predicated on the businesses that are generating enough revenues to spend on ads with them.

EDIT: To add some more context USA GDP in 2019 was 21.4t . Facebook's revenue is 0.004 of that number.

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