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		senbrow 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: But what if I want a faster horse? Why should I appreciate a company's exploitative and extractive experimentation on its customers? The cost of maximizing "value" for the company to the nth degree degrades the customer experience once it exceeds a certain threshold. It's greedy tunnel vision that makes the world worse for everyone in the long term.

margalabargala 7 months ago [–]

For real, what the parent is suggesting is like appreciating that the burglar who robbed me cared enough about stealing from me to spend a week parked on my street learning my schedule.

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