How did we go from tech companies making and selling useful products to tech companies being completely ad driven? Google, FB and most of the other companies have tens of thousands of employees whose jobs revolve around finding ways to show people ads and to keep a track of people on them so they can find their psychological weaknesses and profit from them by selling them shit they don't need.
How do we change technology back to way it was?
Money makes the world go round.
Ads make money.
Ergo ads make the world go round.
Why waste money on R&D when you can just entice companies to pay you to serve their product to your customers? It will die inevitably at least. Radio and television started off innovative then they were flooded with advertisements, the same goes for paid television. It's not enough to be making good profit margins, they get greedy and need to pinch every penny. They will be their own undoing and demise though.
Capitalism is an eternal race to the bottom that is only slowed down, and temporarily at that, by popular action or on the rare occasion the government does something to support that popular action. This is the future we chose.
this but 100% unironically
>eternal race to the bottom that is only slowed down, and temporarily at that, by popular action or on the rare occasion the government does something to support
You have it entirely backwards. The government is the one that slows it down, nigh exclusively so.
Also: with what perspective to what? Capitalism is a race to the bottom according to your drivel, what is the race upwards, or "less bottom"?
interesting book.
Why do ancaps believe that power wouldn't consolidate in the hands of a few who can force their will upon others the same way the government can do now?
>How did we go from tech companies making and selling useful products to tech companies being completely ad driven? Google, FB and most of the other companies
what "most other companies"? there are thousands of companies, making cool new stuff every day. you make it sound like a whole industry sells only a single product.
and yet people still watch hours of TV a day despite it being just ad-filled drivel. We get this dystopian future because a majority of the populace either wants or doesn't mind it. It's the 21st-century version of bread and circuses.