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‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: Internal documents show how tech executives captured children’s attention (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 76 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

You know what sucks most about this? We could literally fix many of society’s issues by focussing on education. Hunger, crime, inequality, poverty, climate, population, everything. But that fucks the goals of billionaires, so we won’t.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 weeks ago

The whole point of going after kids is:

  • hook them young so they never form other habits
  • make them weaker (stupider, poorer, less healthy) so they can’t defend themselves and have to buy your shit

Facebook bought Instagram because it was more popular with young people over grandma got on Facebook.

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