What nobody knows is what happens when everyone goes full ham with manipulations.<p>All these techniques, from gamification to behavioral mining, were developed in isolation - when only one actor maximized their profits.<p>Their results apply when most other actors don't pursue the same goals.<p>Once everyone starts to do it, I predict none will work and will be counterproductive on a larger scale.<p>A bit of a tragedy of commons.
Feels like there's also a practice for a couple of years where companies raise prices in line with inflation, but keep annual employee COLA raises pinned to their typical 2-3% historical rate.