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It has nothing to do with social inept people reconfiguring it. It is the profit seekers, Ebeneser Scrooges and bean counters reshaping society. Why let people have human relationships when you can put an app between them, worsen the experience and make a profit?

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> It has nothing to do with social inept people reconfiguring it. It is the profit seekers

Profit seeking is pretty explicitly anti-social behavior imo

expecting compensation for value you create through labor -- profit seeking -- is not anti social at all, it's actually pro social in that it encourages exchange so that eg the baker can get butter for his bread and the farmer bread for his butter, while keeping their specialties and economies of scale.

Whatever you have in mind is not commerce, but is probably regulatory capture or central planning.

So you have to do things for free or you are a profit seeker? What?

It's not that complicated. When you profit based on offloading your negative externality on society at large, its bad. Even free market absolutists should be able to agree to that.

> expecting compensation for value you create through labor -- profit seeking

You're right

The term I was looking for was more along the lines of "profit maximizing" or "profit motive":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_motive

My mistake

I hope people generally understood what I meant even if I didn't use the precisely correct term for this

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