dwazou@jlai.lu to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: Internal documents show how tech executives captured children’s attention www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up13
arrow-up13external-link‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: Internal documents show how tech executives captured children’s attention www.nytimes.comdwazou@jlai.lu to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square4linkfedilink
minus-squareLillyPip@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoYou know what sucks most about this? We could literally fix many of society’s issues by focussing on education. Hunger, crime, inequality, poverty, climate, population, everything. But that fucks the goals of billionaires, so we won’t.
minus-square[object Object]@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThe whole point of going after kids is: hook them young so they never form other habits make them weaker (stupider, poorer, less healthy) so they can’t defend themselves and have to buy your shit Facebook bought Instagram because it was more popular with young people over grandma got on Facebook.
minus-squareRichard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoHaving more educated people in society means less people willing to work their life off for little less than a dime. This leaves less room for profit and increases production costs for just about everything.
minus-squareag10n@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months ago“Education awakens individuals to the fact that our current system is exploitative” FTFY
You know what sucks most about this? We could literally fix many of society’s issues by focussing on education. Hunger, crime, inequality, poverty, climate, population, everything. But that fucks the goals of billionaires, so we won’t.
The whole point of going after kids is:
Facebook bought Instagram because it was more popular with young people over grandma got on Facebook.
Having more educated people in society means less people willing to work their life off for little less than a dime.
This leaves less room for profit and increases production costs for just about everything.
“Education awakens individuals to the fact that our current system is exploitative”
FTFY