We're Building a Dystopia Just to Make People Click on Ads

Sometimes, like you said, those ethical or moral considerations are so far abstractes from what's on your plate that we don't even think about it.

I think we need a better system than simply further centralizing powers around the globe. I mean, just look at how rotten NASA became, burning up a space shuttle and failing to innovate or become more efficient because of a groupthink culture designed to protect leadership. And these were people who ostensibly are relatively good--they could have easily made more money more easily elsewhere.

We need competition. Not leaders and bureaucracies who cherrry pick winners. We need real competition to keep us honest. That's the best thing for humanity if you 'care about other people.'

swhat you say is true, but money that is not backed up with goods or something of value is of little use. They can go past each other for a while but things soon catch up.

To see some of what Facebook knows about you. They know a lot more than that - all the stuff they collect implicitly. Entered a search term but never clicked go? They know it. Looked at a page without clicking Like? They know that too. If you have the app they know when you walked past a billboard of someone they showed you and ad for... None of that you can see there