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We are paying for it in: * personal data & attention * opportunity cost (b/c their market domination deters investment interest in alternatives) * advertisin
by cowpig 7y ago
We are paying for it in:
* personal data & attention
* opportunity cost (b/c their market domination deters investment interest in alternatives)
* advertising costs (each $ that businesses have to spend on advertising is a $ taken from R&D, profits which get reinvested in the economy, and/or consumers' pockets)
Just because you don't pay directly with money doesn't mean there isn't a cost.
- Gatsky 7y agoSorry, but this seems like nonsense to me. You are telling me that the curtailing of your attention by an app which you voluntarily install and voluntarily use is a ‘cost’ such that you are a stakeholder in the app?