Comment by beenBoutIT
6 years ago
People would care about data if it actually impacted anyone in a tangible negative way. IRL getting served relevant ads and simply having 'more data out there' isn't terrible enough to make most people give up using the Internet.
It's not that something impacts people in a negative way, time and causual linking are paramount. Like slow cooking a frog, if the rate of change (e.g., decline) is slow or even delayed enough, most people won't connect the two events of cause and negative consequences.
If something effects people in a negative way and they see or are effected by the consequences immediately, they often react quite rationally from my experience. If there's any time casual separation, ambiguity, or a time delay resulting in such ambiguity, most simply shrug and accept consequences as "the way things are."
Somewhere in there is a game theoretic analysis involving corporations and populations, not individuals