Comment by bluefirebrand
18 hours ago
> personal responsibility is puzzling to say the least.
It is pretty difficult to blame the users when there are billions of dollars being spent trying to figure out the best ways to manipulate them into the outcomes that the companies want
What hope does your average person have against a machine that is doing its absolute best to weaponize their own shortcomings against themselves, for profit?
> What hope does your average person have...?
The average person should not use a product/service if they don't understand, or are unwilling to shoulder, the risks.
Virtually everyone regularly uses products and services that they don't fully understand like insurance, vehicles, planes, healthcare, financial products, etc. That's just the reality of living in modern society. No single person has any reasonable hope of understanding all of the wildly complicated risk models they interact with.
It's not possible for anyone to fully understand the risks of walking out their front door.
I guess I should have said, "The average person should not use a product/service if they don't understand, or are unwilling to shoulder, the risks as described to them by the provider."