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A while ago I got a recruiting email from somebody at Robinhood. In it, they listed the number of times their average user interacts with the app daily and framed the high number as something to be proud of.

For a lot of services, this is a neutral (or even good) metric. But for an investing platform, encouraging people to interact more is a fabulous method of turning it into gambling and causing people to blow a huge amount of money.

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So it's Robinhood's fault somehow?? Holee fuk. This is why we can't have nice things.

Is heightened clickbait and outrage porn Facebook's fault?

I see this as roughly equivalent. IMO, Robinhood is being socially irresponsible if they are making design choices intended to increase engagement.

>Is heightened clickbait and outrage porn Facebook's fault

That's not the same, and NO they are not 'socially responsible' you know how many times that happened at NYSE?

Look it's easy, don't work/play with money you cannot effort to loose, never think more than 10% profit is normal because your a genius, and never ever listen to others.

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