Now tell us how you really feel...........

 

........................about the digital world:

The business logic of these platforms, the relationship they forge with their users (who are not customers, in the traditional sense), is essentially extractive, parasitic, vampiric. As a form of entrepreneurship, it more closely resembles… manufacturing highly addictive Tianeptine (“Gas Station Heroin”) for general sale, than it does the selling of cars or refrigerators.

-from Matthew B. Crawford's substack as he looks at the simultaneous rise of “surveillance capitalism” and of attention engineering.