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People still use Meta. How can he conclude otherwise.
It's so frustrating how people just don't care about things. Especially if they're complicated or indirect.
They'll be like "but there's funny memes there" and I'm like there's humor in all sorts of places. Blank stare.
It’s perfectly normal and you do it, too. Different people focus on different things. Nobody has the bandwidth to educate themselves about everything.
Ideally, we would trust people who focus on a topic, aka experts, so we could focus on our own interests. In reality, we just accept the easiest path for things we don’t have the time to focus on—that could be tech, fashion, food, sport, etc.
The problem is that people with a selfish profit motive have too much control over things that people want.
Yeah, we all do it. But some things are much harder to navigate (eg: driving a car when you live in a car-first hell is hard to avoid) vs just not using Twitter.
Rich people and capitalism are a bigger problem that arguably is easier to solve, though, to your point.