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> Facebook is much less than what the technofeudalists make it out to be: It’s an advertising platform that wrings pennies out of users’ scrap time — attention that would otherwise go to waste, at least from the capitalist perspective. Behind all the claims about changing the world with technology is a crew of digital ragpickers.

Hmm. "Scrap time that goes to waste?" Doesn't that depend on how that time is used and the opportunity cost. That time could be a hobby, social interaction or trying something that could be super valuable. To capitalism. To the human experience.

Another common error around surveillance capitalism, is to apply the average to deprecate the harm. Statics on average screen time are pretty large

https://explodingtopics.com/blog/screen-time-stats

7 hours - thats the average. Some of that time might have been productive.

What does the 10% worst percent look like? How much of that is "waste?".

I confess I don't know what technofeudalism precisely is. I do think the corrosiveness of tech such as social media, phone use and surveillance capitalism in general is underestimated.