deliberately engineer addiction to the services they provide,” Soros said. “This can be very harmful, particularly for adolescents. There is a similarity between internet platforms and gambling companies. Casinos have developed techniques to hook gamblers to the point where they gamble away all their money, even money they don’t have. Something very harmful and maybe irreversible is happening to human attention in the digital age. Not just distraction or addiction: social media companies are inducing people to give up their autonomy.”
Actually, I agree with Soros for once in my life. Even a blind hog finds and acorn occasionally.
deliberately engineer addiction to the services they provide,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
Move along. Nothing to see here...