> We get our money from selling out users to drive advertising clicks.
Advertisers are the real customer and users the product and all that. This perverse incentive is the driver of most garbage on the web. And not only is the user sold out, they are manipulated by the advertising, the products (e.g. search results, news pages) are manipulated, and now elections are manipulated (Because Facebook et al designed to put the user first would not have spread viral bullshit).
Engineers need to put morality and social good above making more money. Greed is not the god that people should be worshiping and designing economic systems around.
> We get our money from selling out users to drive advertising clicks.
Advertisers are the real customer and users the product and all that. This perverse incentive is the driver of most garbage on the web. And not only is the user sold out, they are manipulated by the advertising, the products (e.g. search results, news pages) are manipulated, and now elections are manipulated (Because Facebook et al designed to put the user first would not have spread viral bullshit).
Engineers need to put morality and social good above making more money. Greed is not the god that people should be worshiping and designing economic systems around.