T-Rex: Often in business you will encounter a choice between a good thing and a bad thing. But the catch is the BAD thing is what will make you more money!! That's how we structured society, too late to change it now!

T-Rex: Hah hah hah, whoops!

T-Rex: And sure, sometimes there's a COST to doing the bad thing - a social cost, in that people start to hate you. But if I care more about making money than people hating you, then it's an easy choice: do the thing, get paid!! Make money, baby!!

Utahraptor: Social media's a great example of this!
T-Rex: Because it costs money to moderate?

Utahraptor: Exactly! So the companies say "oh no we couldn't POSSIBLY do that, it simply costs too much" and leave it open to all sorts of stuff, and then Facebook's used for genocide in Myanmar and Twitter's a hive of hate speech and the world's a worse place but they made bank.

T-Rex: Utahraptor, was the world DESTINED to get worse once we could know EVERY passing thought of complete strangers??
T-Rex: ...wait.
T-Rex: ...Wait saying that out loud made me realize it absolutely was, haha NEVERMIND