Their business model ties profitability directly to maximal surveillance and psychological manipulation, as the basis for inducing addiction, manufactured demand, and impulse spending. With only theatrical attempts at hiding the lack of inhibitions or safeguards about harnessing material damaging to children, teens, adults and society at large.

That is the economic structure of their business model.

Now juice that model with $ billions of revenue and $ trillions in potential market cap for shareholders, who demand double digit percentage growth per year.

That defines the scale of available resources to drive the business model forward.

This is a machine designed to scale up and maximally leverage seemingly small conflicts of interest into a global monster that feeds on mental and social decay.

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Of course, it benefits Facebook and customers to mix in as much genuine side products and services with real value as possible.

But that only wedges the destructive core into individual lives and society even more.

Now add AI algorithms to their core competencies of surveillance integration and psychological manipulation, and to the side value honey features.

We are getting Stockholm’ed and stewed in a lot of high walled slow cookers these days.