I'm tired of this American exceptionalism. Success is not only about money. It's about making a positive impact on the world for everyone. This is where the big tech companies deeply fail.

America poisons the world with pollution (eg pulling out of Paris Agreement), misinformation, promoting discord as 'engagement', unnecessary military engagements and screwing up the rest of the world.

And really, abdicating 'leadership' was already done by America by voting for Trump.

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matchbok3 a day ago | parent [-]

Billions and billions of people willingly use these products. Are you saying they use them because they are bad for them and they don't like them and don't value them?

	▲	wolvoleo 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No they use them because they are addictive, intentionally. But they reinforce negative emotional content because it is more engaging. This is what causes all the polarisation in society, what gave us Brexit and Trump. See for example the book Careless People, it describes how Facebook set up a huge consulting operation with the Trump campaign to get him into office. But they are bad for society, it's not for no reason that a lot of countries are trying to ban them for the younger generations now, similar to smoking.