Who is educating these people? organization who have an interest in keeping the masses ignorant to the effects of privacy.
>which is why they make a flawed tradeoff against their own interests.
this is a common argument it hear, do you not think it is elitist to think that you know better then the common people? Hell, maybe you do, but I bet 10,000 other people also think they know better too. I am going to trust 100 billion micro decisions everyday rather then some academic in an ivory tower who thinks they know the will of the people.
>if everyone is on facebook, what choice do you have in reaching an audience?
Come on, There are many more channels to reach your audience, you are on one right now. Hacker new knows nothing about me other then my username and password.
>If google started manipulating the opinions of the majority of society against your interests, what choice would you have?
duckduckgo, bing, reddit, facebook, TV, or Family people get create their opinions based on a huge number of inputs. The problem is that people want to be told they are right so they only consume things that reinforce their opinion (confirmation bias) but that is a whole other road.