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Social contract? Seriously? Who in the world is using Reddit because they have confidence in it? That is insane. It's an anonymous black hole of posts and comments and come and go like dust in the wind and have no lasting permanence or value. It's not social. There is no contract. Nobody in their right mind should have confidence in Reddit or believe that anything on there is real or authentic.

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> dust in the wind and have no lasting permanence or value

You mean like the massive russian "troll farms" that have effectively coerced people into political beliefs, or places like /r/RedPill that have galvanized young males to be ant-feminine, or WSB where thousands of people have placed savings into Gamestop. Want me to go on?

So yes there is most definitely a social contract. Just because you don't believe the information, doesn't mean others don't as well.

> It's not social. There is no contract.

You should probably read up on what "social contract" means: https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/social-contract-...

Has anyone been harmed by losing money in GameStop meme investing? It seems like everyone more or less got what they paid for in entertainment.

Define "harm"? How is losing money not objectively considered harmful to a person?

When you go to Disneyland it involves losing a lot of money but people usually enjoy it. Same thing here. People are not being quoted in the news or testifying to Congress that they lost their retirement and Mr. DFV has not lost his SEC broker registration.

You are right up until you end the sentence with the wrong cranberry. A vast majority of content on Reddit is shockingly real (going by Occam's razor), it is one of the reasons why in light of this whole debacle I'm considering never setting foot on that platform ever again.

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