This fits too neatly into the "new thing is going to kill/corrupt your children" meme that is very popular through history.
Having said that, advertising based platforms are basically all about making you feel worse about yourself to spur purchases. Who spends more money on advertised products the Zen master at one with themselves or the anxious person looking for the quick fix to make them beautiful, popular, trendy, etc.
Basically human insecurities and addictions are a market externality the same as carbon in the atmosphere. If they aren't internalised to the market then you're basically creating a highly efficient machine to seek them out and abuse them for profit.
We need to build different incentives in from the start than "do anything to get money and I'll take a cut" which obviously leads to bad places once the capitalist machine gets a hold of it.
Like a gun, it's a powerful tool, and you have to be careful where you point it.
Having said that, advertising based platforms are basically all about making you feel worse about yourself to spur purchases. Who spends more money on advertised products the Zen master at one with themselves or the anxious person looking for the quick fix to make them beautiful, popular, trendy, etc.
Basically human insecurities and addictions are a market externality the same as carbon in the atmosphere. If they aren't internalised to the market then you're basically creating a highly efficient machine to seek them out and abuse them for profit.
We need to build different incentives in from the start than "do anything to get money and I'll take a cut" which obviously leads to bad places once the capitalist machine gets a hold of it.
Like a gun, it's a powerful tool, and you have to be careful where you point it.