True. But users can be fooled in short term. In the long term consumers are collectively smarter then any corporation.

So in the long term being decent is really good for business but also costly in short term.

Optimizing for the short-term is what many killing companies and good products.

>> I mean one way to do it properly is to actually listen to your users. So many corporations claim to have that as a priority and when you look at real, actual feedback, they really don't. How hard is it to look at the masses of complaints about autoplay or notification spam or... any numbers of dark patterns you could name and decide that you shouldn't do that?

> Corporations have no priority except to make money. If making money is at odds with positive user experience (which is almost always is), making money wins.

That attitude has a similar problem: socialism has been gaining in popularity, and I'd say that's a direct result of corporations over-prioritizing their money-making over both customer priorities and other social priorities (like paying reasonable amount of tax).