yes and if human well being was the goal over profit. profit benefits the few, and it’s an amoral driving force. unfortunately it’s been conflated with freedom and fairness.

there are lots of systemic forces that incentivize being an asshole as well

I don’t think this is likely to work tbh. I’m sure the app has enough device data to link the user with a broader data profile that would easily eliminate data from people that don’t actually have periods.

The data profiles people build on citizens aren’t limited to one data source, and emails/phone numbers/browser fingerprints/device details are all things that can be keyed between data sets to relate identities.

Fascist law enforcement can and would do this kind of thing to chase individuals. This kind of noise seems easy to filter out.

That’s giving the algorithms too much credit. They don’t encode user desires they encode user engagement bait. Like everything under our capitalist system the motivation is profit: in this case ad revenue. Sometimes positive things or agreeable things drive engagement, sometimes negative or divisive things. As long as users spend time scrolling on the platform they’ll both be given equal weight.

As with anything profit motive driven it’s just about what makes more money not what makes more sense or what makes better outcomes. The core assumption of capitalism (at least how it’s sold) is that profit causing activity correlates with improvements to human well-being. How anyone still believes that, I’m not sure.

they’re so quirky let’s normalize their rhetoric, those weirdos are so silly. you wouldn’t wanna be seen as lame by voting for them.

I’m so glad Democrats pulled out all the stops

haha they’re so WEIRD said the liberal on the way to the concentration camp

Organize labor. General strike. Halt the economy. There are so many ways to resist that don’t require you to wait four years and plug your nose to vote for the Republicans of 20 years ago.

Sabotage their agenda

I’m sick of private ownership and private decision making about every fucking single aspect of human life from who gets housed to who gets fed to our very culture.

Americans “hate” dictatorships but allow the economy to be run by a bunch of Lords.

Socialism is the democratization of the economy. Socialism puts the human and the worker and the people most impacted by these economic decisions at the helm.

But no, democracy in the economy wouldn’t be free. We need to slave away for fascist dictators.

They’re both working for capitalists. Democrats bank on getting the support of capitalists that have morals. Unfortunately most capitalists, and the wealthiest capitalists, don’t. When both parties appeal to the same group but one gives them more of what they want unsurprisingly that’s the one that wins.

The working class is invisible because the working class is not organized.

waiting for a chance to elect the least shitty candidate every 4 years is how you got into this mess.

If we don’t organize and start taking direct action then nothing will change.

People need to join organizations in their community or labor unions and begin to directly sabotage the conservative agenda. General strikes should be something that the American left are actively planning right now.

Don’t sit down, stand up

hey man Cheney and Bush are monsters and we have to stop them by voting blue no matter who

checks calendar sorry I mean Cheney and Bush are moderate Republicans who endorse Kamala let’s give them a hand

wouldn’t it be nice if the profit motive wasn’t the only driving force of the economy?

Putting these valid points aside we’re also all just taking for granted that the software would have properly identified a human under the same circumstances… This could very easily have been a much more chilling outcome

Being a run of the mill fascist (rather than those in power) is actually an incredibly submissive position, they just want strong daddies to take care of them and make the bad people go away. It takes courage to be a “snowflake liberal” by comparison

Putting your stupid comment aside consider all of the resources and time and effort and greenhouse gas emissions that went into growing and shipping that food around the world.

Waste is harmful for many reasons.

we’re not far off from grocery store workers having to do the same

100 point top thread based on the second and third hand opinions of a Windows non-user really sums up the quality of this discussion lol

The average human driver is tried and held accountable

My understanding is that it’s more about where people get their wealth and income. Working class primarily gets it from labour. Middle class has a mix of capital and labour income. And upper class / capitalists get it mostly from capital.

Degrees and jobs align with those but don’t define them, as far as I understand it.

Then again in my mind the only distinction worth a damn is “contributor” and “parasite” and so we’re all working class and we should see ourselves as aligned against the individuals and families who have enough wealth that generations of them will never need to work a day in their lives.

We won’t starve our old people, there’s plenty of wealth to go around, it’s just that a tiny portion of the population has stolen it all. Maybe even the average person will have to make some sacrifices if birth rates don’t stay at a certain level but our lifestyles are hugely inflated compared to even 50 years ago.

We can live sustainable lives with a reducing population, our productivity per capita is higher than it’s ever been, we’re all just seeing so little of it.

Instead of Musks and Bezos, instead of all of our creative minds working in advertising and finance, instead of 10 different streaming services, we can have a good quality of life for everyone.

Our economy being efficient is the biggest lie. The economy is only profitable, and it only has good outcomes when those outcomes are aligned with profit. It’s time for a new economy that serves the people