"Cancel your subs, and enjoy torrents on Pirate Bay for shows made 20 years ago. When TV shows had heart,"
There wasn't any time TV shows had heart, but definitely not in 2005.
The fact is, human beings cannot control their greed in the presence of surplus.
OK, this is an interesting topic.
If money is just on the ground, or gold found in the earth, most of us would pick it up.
If you had $10k in your wallet, most of us would not take it from you, and especially wouldn't take it by physically harming you. A few people would.
An even smaller percentage of the population would actively kill you to take the $10k from you.
'Greed' isn't a problem if it doesn't cause harm. There is a small percentage of the population (griefers) who will happily enshittify things. Bankers only see things in terms of dollars, they don't consider the harm they cause (although they do usually try to follow the law).
Are you sure it wasn't the North Carolina bankers?
Probably not majorly, their capitalization is too low.
It came out that Facebook made 16 billion Off of the most scammiest of scam advertisements on their site
Interesting. Is there a source for this? Do you know which ad it was?
Bankers have nothing to do with it,
How to say you know nothing about Silicon Valley without saying you know nothing about Silicon Valley.
"Thank you, Silicon Valley! Yet again, you've fucked up the world."
It wasn't Silicon Valley that fucked things up, Silicon Valley just builds stuff. It was the New York bankers who come and try to squeeze the maximum profit out of everything, even at the cost of quality (or anything else).
That is when things get enshittified.
"When you look at Gen Z usage on Facebook, they aren't using the social media feed," said Mike Proulx
That's because the social media feed has become a trash roll of ads and memes. If you want to actually see what your friends are doing, it's not in the social media feed.
Since the French Revolution, the West has steadily moved to this idea that everyone is equal in ability. They clutch pearls over racial differences, but their real concern is social class IQ differences
Your idea here is what, royalty has higher IQ? Richer people have higher IQ?
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.