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Someone eventually either buys something, or the company that's paying for the last, most expensive, click goes out of business. But there's a lot of those comp
by dwighttk 7y ago
Someone eventually either buys something, or the company that's paying for the last, most expensive, click goes out of business. But there's a lot of those companies, so there's always (so far) someone paying for those clicks.
- dwighttk 7y ago(goes out of business or just stops buying those ads...)
- alex_young 7y agoIn this view, the sucker is the VC? I'm not saying that's wrong, but wow.
- dwighttk 7y agoprobably also some small businesspeople of the herbalife/lululemon type...
- finnh 7y agoOften, yes? Idlewords had a good post about this a few years ago: https://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm https://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm
- troyvit 7y ago"... a piece of sponsored prose remarkable not for its content, but for being at least four layers of advertising removed from any kind of productive economic activity." Such a great article.