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I have no problem with them saying both things at the same time. You're responsible for what you give your attention to, and so is everyone else.


Ultimately, yes, but that's a rather short-sighted position to take when there's an cadre of psychologists and other highly-trained people who's entire job is to entrap you further, just so someone can make (more) money.

Eg when you buy items at the grocery store, do you consciously examine all options, including the items on the bottom shelf by your feet, or do you just go for the items at eye level, and are thus tricked by a similar group of psychologists into buying the product you've been trained to want. And even if you, personally, do, there's a reason why product companies pay supermarkets to have their products at eye/arm level - it works.


Sure, but also Facebook has a bunch of doctorate-having engineers and psychologists dedicating hundreds or thousands of hours to figure out a system that gets for me to give my attention to Facebook, whereas I’m one dude who doesn’t even have a graduate degree who gets tired and bored and struggles to sleep sometimes.




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