Many people here mention "parenting" as a solution to this problem, and although this is a solution available to the wealthy and time wealthy audience of hacker news, the other side of the world, probably in your own country and certainly in poorer countries, the people aren't able to put in as much attention into monitoring their children or to put in time understanding the many harms of the modern world.The real problem is the mass effect of these people. The majority of the world.
We all like to think we are above manipulation, maybe as a form of egoism, but in reality we are all simple creatures compared to the momentum of science.
mrguyorama|8 years ago
I never could understand why people have such a hard time admitting that a literal TEAM of PhD owning Psychologists who have spent their entire lives designing ways to trick and manipulate you could possibly be successful. That'd be like saying Ford couldn't possibly build an engine better than the one you hacked together from plumbing parts, just because you can't fathom the concept of people being good at their jobs