Grumpy Elfo
pereiramaciel.bsky.social
Grumpy Elfo
@pereiramaciel.bsky.social
Reposted by Grumpy Elfo
There’s even a name for this:

‘Calculated Misery’

www.vox.com/culture/2017...
“Calculated misery”: how airlines profit from your miserable flying experience
They don’t need happy customers to make money.
www.vox.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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In the end, we no longer operate in a marketplace of ideas.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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When public priorities are shaped by engagement algorithms, politics turns reactive. Parties perform ‘control’ instead of solving problems. That’s how hollow discourse grows, and why extreme narratives gain leverage they could never earn on evidence.
November 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM