It\u2019s something I\u2019ve seen so many times in my life, by really smart people: they can dissociate things that on paper you can dissociate but that in real life, are not dissociable at all.<\/p>\n
Take gambling. Libertarian folks will be adamant that \u201cno one is forced to gamble\u201d<\/em>. That people are doing this to themselves, and that there\u2019s nothing that can be done to prevent their own harm. It\u2019s their responsibility. We all have to be responsible for the things we do to ourselves, etc.<\/p>\n This is omitting how we live here and now, and I suspect in the past too: we\u2019re living together. We\u2019re building infrastructures, systems around our social behaviors.<\/p>\n Gambling is designed for a certain kind of folks who are really sensitive to the appeal of gain. In 2023, after really hard times caused by a pandemic and the convenience of tech, a lot of people have been attracted to gambling. It\u2019s fun!<\/p>\n It is not possible to say that this is an individual\u2019s responsibility when we design, fine tune, A\/B test, use all the psychological data on earth to make products and services to specifically trigger the same gambling buttons over and over until people give up and start gambling. It is not.<\/p>\n Sure maybe it\u2019ll be fine, just for a couple months in winter, bored. It might not, ruining the lives of many. <\/p>\n I take gambling as an example because it\u2019s kind of the mother of all this weird customer optimization going on these days. You know, engagement. Retention. Built-in gamification. Everything derived from gambling tactics.<\/p>\n All those things are meant to catch people. And they\u2019re insanely good at it, from Pokemon to TikTok.<\/p>\n Libertarians folks are often financially been out of being stressed out for a long time. They don\u2019t understand how time passing by ruins your ability to resist easiness. It is not hard to understand that it\u2019s wrong to actively seek to make massive, ridiculously massive profit off of people\u2019s exhaustion of the real world though.<\/p>\n \u201cIf it\u2019s not me, it will be someone else\u201d<\/em> is often the answer to justify those lines of business. Well that\u2019s another point for UBI then; I\u2019d rather have people stay home than do predatory shit to each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s something I\u2019ve seen so many times in my life, by really smart people: they can dissociate things that on paper you can dissociate but that in real life, are not dissociable at all. Take gambling. Libertarian folks will be adamant that \u201cno one is forced to gamble\u201d. That people are doing this to themselves, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4745,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}