Silicon Valley always win and the winner takes it all

[oakfarm]

I have previously linked to this article by Kat Rosenfield: The death of intimacy. Another quote from the article:

“It’s something new, and also something post-#MeToo, and perhaps not entirely unrelated to our contemporary obsession with consent as the primary (sometimes only) framework for determining if a given encounter was good or not. Meeting strangers on the internet went in a generational spasm from being maximally unsafe to the only way to do things, as the existence of dating apps rendered the old ways of connecting not just quaint, but creepy.”


Whe writer is saying that Silicon Valley capitalism, the California based part of the global elite, made money from metoo? It accelerated dating from a place away from keyboard to going via their algorithms? The giant digital media companies won metoo, just like they won the lockdowns, by making money on it?

I have always assumed, and knew, the medical industry are the one making money, and will make even more, on human sexuality. Not just birth control and viagra, but stuff that transhumanists think will come in the future. I never, however, thaught about the fact the tech industry makes money on it.

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[wantedonvoyage]

Oh for sure. And there must be big money in it. I read that dating apps have fake accounts, all female of course, made by employees, who engage with male users to keep them interested since they are not meeting any real people on the apps.

Meanwhile, smiling at someone across a bar or starting a benign conversation in the store is now "creepy".