An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion

Re:An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion by agumonkey on Saturday October 23, 2021 @07:05AM (#28967333)

I don't know if it's been studied or written but I'd bet solid money that every group / company starts nice, trying to differentiate from old rusty and corrupt only to become what they despised because that's just survival instinct and "efficiency" (short term, lazy).

Same for people, new ones come fresh with ideals only to become sleazy when their spot is secured. It's a balance between knowledge of the old versus naiveness of the new.

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Re:An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion by revscat on Saturday October 23, 2021 @10:05AM (#28968638)

The universal emergent behavior of capitalism. It may not be by design, but is as certain as gravity. Capitalism is wholly incompatible with morality, unless you definite morality itself to be capitalism.

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Re:An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion by agumonkey on Saturday October 23, 2021 @10:27AM (#28968841)

I don't think capitalism is root here, it's an amplifier but humans have the same problem. Maybe any complex ~intelligent system even ?

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Re:An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion by bostik on Saturday October 23, 2021 @03:41PM (#28971573)

> I don't know if it's been studied or written

Yes, it has been written. And you almost certain will have heard the condensed version.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

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Re:An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion by agumonkey on Saturday October 23, 2021 @05:34PM (#28972545)

come on, i need longer than this :)

there must be finer / wiser analysis about these antagonism.

I have a tendency to be a naive hero wannabee but I recognize when I become dark or complacent. Most probably people managed to do better and write about this in a social context.

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