I’m not buying that human nature is the problem. People have vulnerabilities that can be exploited by profit incentives, which is where you get algorithms that are engineered to pray on addictiveness and encourage unhappiness. Before social media got so profit driven social media was a lot nicer experience.

I wouldn’t mind a subscription model if it just connected me in ways that I wanted and didn’t try to engineer my experience to squeeze every cent out of me.

My skepticism says tho that you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.