yes and if human well being was the goal over profit. profit benefits the few, and it’s an amoral driving force. unfortunately it’s been conflated with freedom and fairness.

there are lots of systemic forces that incentivize being an asshole as well

That’s giving the algorithms too much credit. They don’t encode user desires they encode user engagement bait. Like everything under our capitalist system the motivation is profit: in this case ad revenue. Sometimes positive things or agreeable things drive engagement, sometimes negative or divisive things. As long as users spend time scrolling on the platform they’ll both be given equal weight.

As with anything profit motive driven it’s just about what makes more money not what makes more sense or what makes better outcomes. The core assumption of capitalism (at least how it’s sold) is that profit causing activity correlates with improvements to human well-being. How anyone still believes that, I’m not sure.

they’re so quirky let’s normalize their rhetoric, those weirdos are so silly. you wouldn’t wanna be seen as lame by voting for them.

I’m so glad Democrats pulled out all the stops

haha they’re so WEIRD said the liberal on the way to the concentration camp

there’s nothing neo about this, let’s not even give them the credit of originality. This is exactly what happened 100 years ago.

Organize. Sabotage. General strike. Protest. Political action isn’t one day every four years.

wouldn’t it be nice if the profit motive wasn’t the only driving force of the economy?

and that’s all it is, a reference not a joke.

A good example of a pavlov joke is the one where pavlov goes to a bar after work, and just as he’s about to order the phone rings in the bar and he shouts “oh shit I forgot to feed the dogs!”

Putting these valid points aside we’re also all just taking for granted that the software would have properly identified a human under the same circumstances… This could very easily have been a much more chilling outcome

Being a run of the mill fascist (rather than those in power) is actually an incredibly submissive position, they just want strong daddies to take care of them and make the bad people go away. It takes courage to be a “snowflake liberal” by comparison

Yeah sounds like you’re straining yourself

Oh I guess I missed the joke, then. I thought it was a bit of a non-sequitur. I think I still prefer my version

The structure of this feels off, the punchline already happened in panel two and the text in panel three isn’t adding anything. A panel 3 without text would be funnier imo because it would let the joke soak, I also think moving the punchline to panel 3 would have worked better.

we’re not far off from grocery store workers having to do the same

100 point top thread based on the second and third hand opinions of a Windows non-user really sums up the quality of this discussion lol

The average human driver is tried and held accountable

May it watch over us, amen

Don’t question The Economy. There is no better way to make decisions about wealth allocation. This is the most efficient and fair way. Repeat after me.

Yeah exactly, if you are talking about winning an online argument you’ve already lost in many ways