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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• over 6 years ago
“Here's a budget breakdown of a couple that makes $500,000 a year and still feels average.” Currently trending news article; no citation because I don’t like rewarding evil. This sentence was intentionally crafted to make an audience hate someone to maximize ad revenue.
Patrick McKenzie@patio11• over 6 years ago
Replying to @patio11
There is a genre of articles like that, and the writers and editors of it know what they’re doing, or in the alternative they are sufficiently responsive to the incentives of viral spread that the system knows what it is doing even if the actuators of it do not.