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Like it or not, economy needs ads.

• majewsky 8y ago
  Economy has functioned by word-of-mouth for millennia. Ads as an industry are relatively new (maybe 300 years). (Sure, word-of-mouth is a form of advertisement, but OP clearly refers to the ad industry, so I'm going with that meaning.)
  • jhall1468 8y ago
    How much are you willing to pay for every advertising supported site you use?
    • milesvp 8y ago
      Apparently there was a study related to this this recently. http://timharford.com/2018/05/how-much-would-i-have-to-pay-you-to-quit-facebook/ http://timharford.com/2018/05/how-much-would-i-have-to-pay-y...
  • gtt 8y ago
    Those millennia world was mostly in Malthusian trap.