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SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Social media algorithms present different things to different people. So if you fall for a grift, the algorithm will just show you things that support the grift and never show anything that debunks it.

Someone going down a weird rabbit hole will stay on that for a long time, watching many ads along the way. Someone that starts to think “hey maybe there’s something to this thing” then immediately sees something debunking it may conclude “well that last video was a waste of time” and may decide to go do something else that’s a more worthwhile use of their time. End result, they watch fewer ads. Less revenue for the social media companies.

Weird internet rabbit holes are more profitable than seeing contradicting opinions. So the algorithms are tuned to send people down rabbit holes and not offer information contradicting them.

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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I just confronted a guy I know who told me with a straight face that poor people struggle with budgeting.

I asked him where he got that info. He then sent me a bunch of YouTubers.

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- Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Payday loans sort of suggest this. Bit it’s more how society is biased to keep poor people poor.
  
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  - OCATMBBL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Payday loans don’t suggest this. Those are predatory businesses aimed at the poor and desperate.
    
    When you’re one month from disaster and you break a leg, it’s a payday loan or your family doesn’t have a home/food when you work a job without paid leave. And good luck with the disability approval, because even if it eventually comes through, you are on the hook until it does.
    
    Being poor has very little to do with budgeting. I’m sure a substantial portion, if not the majority of them, could figure out how to budget with a $100k income instead of a $30k income.
    
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    Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I agree. My point was that rich people don’t take payday loans, but i recognise that not being able to afford a safetly cushion doesn’t necessarily imply bad planning.
    
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    UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Those are predatory businesses aimed at the poor and desperate.
    
    society is biased to keep poor people poor.
    
    Seems like you agree
    
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CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yes, but it’s important to note that confirmation bias is always present in our views of the world because our brain tends to keep things simple by prefering confirming to contradicting information. It just has been amplified by recommendation algorithms meant to increase engagement by showing you “more of the stuff you like”.

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