Will Google also be banning ads for health insurance companies, doctors, mortgage companies, and law firms? After all, these are crucial services, the choice of

Will Google also be banning ads for health insurance companies, doctors, mortgage companies, and law firms? After all, these are crucial services, the choice of which can have major consequences! You make a convincing argument[1] that advertising rewards the most exploitative providers, so perhaps Google should ban their advertisements as well. Obviously this won't happen. I would argue that this is because bail bond services are demonized as exploiting the poor, while services white collar professionals typically use don't get the same treatment--precisely because it's easy to demonize something you will never need as predatory and useless. [1] Though I would dispute it: higher margin doesn't equal "more exploitative," which is why we make purchasing decisions by thinking about consumer surplus instead of about how high the producer's margins were. I might purchase a new flagship phone instead of a $150 knockoff even if the former has higher margins. Or I might purchase a cheaper, better laptop from a company with high margins (and a dialed-in supply chain) rather than a one-off build from someone who is barely covering their (much higher) costs.