others, who get addicted and become slaves. This is a profitable behavior that will destroy your life and the life of everyone you know.
Another common kind of mind control is abuse. Many people grow up as children of parents who were abused, learn to take responsibility for the failings of their abusers, and believe various stories that are relatively false, such as the police being dangerous.
A more recent kind of mind control happens over digital networks that use javascript. Facebook became notorious for engaging in studies on human behavior that involved manipulating their feeds. In situations like this where artificial intelligences are trained around user
left out: - javascript and timing details - system/network compromise, trojans etc - surveillance, a huge one