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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)Happy people can't be monetized, this is why billionaires and tech companies need to keep you unhappy, angry, or scared. Resist. Be happy.
//hat tip to @Archie8
Misuse Case@grumpygamer @Archie8 This is also why companies promote scary, aggressive, stalker-ish versions of fandom that result in greater “engagement” and spending even though they also cause nasty behavior like hate comments against female and non-white actors and writers making decisions that fans disagree with. That stuff is acceptable collateral damage.
Archie
Guy Lateur@grumpygamer Don't worry.
Jimmothy Baggins@grumpygamer @Archie8 it’s good for millionaires then I’m already miserable
CondoritoSometimes the most punk rock thing we can do is be joyful right in the faces of our oppressors.
Zoidberg For President@grumpygamer @Archie8 Axes or Guillotines, this is a tough question for the proletariat...
SPICY EVIL CAET🍬🍭🎄
MNeko@grumpygamer @Archie8 Never in my wildest dreams did I think this would become a protest song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU
Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy (Official Music Video)
REMASTERED IN HD!Music video by Bobby McFerrin performing Don't Worry Be Happy. #BobbyMcFerrin #DontWorryBeHappy #Remastered
Matt@grumpygamer @Archie8 Makes sense, my wife and I are pretty contempt as long as we have something to read, write, or draw on in our spare time. We learned to derive happiness from ourselves over the years and spend almost no money beyond necessities. Advertising just looks like propaganda to me
WAH@psychxr @grumpygamer @Archie8 I can only assume you are content in your contempivness. @#!!gh spellcheck!!
@psychxr @grumpygamer I view all advertising as one step away from scamming
Andreas K@Archie8 @psychxr @grumpygamer Well, it's a fine line.
The ad industry liked to claim that they “inform” the consumer about his choices.
The reality is more that they “mislead” the consumer about his choices, ads tend to show a very one-sided view.
@psychxr @grumpygamer @Archie8
Relying on external sources for happiness is never a good idea.
As you cannot control these, thus your happiness becomes something you cannot control.
Not good.
Patrick GillamDecades ago, in a presentation on psychographics (as opposed to demographics), I learned that people at the top of the psychographic development scale—the self-actualized—are the hardest to market to, for they have no predictable buttons to push. They are too spontaneous. They are too happy. Bummer!
elmuerte@grumpygamer @Archie8
I thought it was common knowledge for years that "happy people are bad for business".
I thought it was common knowledge for years that "happy people are bad for business".
Steffen Christensen@grumpygamer @Archie8 You can still monetize happy people, just much less. Angry works the best, which is why when Facebook changed their algorithm to prefer angrifying content and were confronted with it, they refused to change it back.
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043377310/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-congress
Mᴀʀᴋ VᴀɴᴅᴇWᴇᴛᴛᴇʀɪɴɢ@grumpygamer @Archie8 I'm not sure why I should pay someone for my misery. I'd be happy to pay them for my happiness, were they the parties responsible.
IAG@grumpygamer @Archie8 the original article this comes from is actually on our side for once
the escapistSo it turns out I am clinically monetizable, guys
Torbjörn AnderssonOn the other hand, I bought Return to Monkey Island, sight unseen, precisely because the previous games didn't make me unhappy, angry, or scared.
I would not have bought a sequel to, say, The Curse of Enchantia or Blue Ice. Probably.
Andreas M. Heitmann 
@grumpygamer @Archie8 Being frightened sells.anything. This is how SALE usually works on this planet. Sadly ...
And people are usually easily turned in.
Moved to @@grumpygamer @Archie8 "We also can't get people to realize that our services specifically are toxic and that neither humans nor the internet are solely to blame!"
Marcus ReynoldsAm I at war with #ArtificialIntelligence? I want to live #AlgorithmFree. I want to make my own mind up. Rich people want to make my mind up for me, in a way that benefits them.
Kevin Karhan 
*Arbiter Voice* "Were it so easy!"
I mean, it is easy but I kinda need to be employable due to the socioeconomic requirement to have income [or rather wagework since I'm not a billionaire] and thus doing drugs isn't an option even if I didn't care about the criminalization.
Plus I'm not a sociopathic asshole like #AparteidEmeraldBoy so I won't #DUI!
ronaldopaceFound the link: https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/
The screenshot made it seem like total bootlicker, but no, it's a pretty good piece from wired.
My favorite piece is following from the screenshot:
"Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don’t buy much. (....). They fix bicycles, then they talk about fixing bicycles, then they show their friend, who just came over for no reason, how they fixed their bicycle, and their friend says, “Wow, good job,” and they make tea.
Pinging @volkersfreunde who actually does fix bikes in his free time. 😁😁😁
Falko@ronaldopace would you like a sandwich?
@volkersfreunde sudo make me a sandwich
( Asking nicely )
beforewisdom 
Of course people can be monetized.
Exploitively low paid jobs.
Marketing to make them buy things they don't need nor would otherwise want.
Making compulsive apps & sites so you can sell advertising.
Chu 朱First step of resisting is to stop watching TV. TV basically sells unhappiness.