> A company in Google's position is exactly the company that could figure out how to get a billion users to pay them directly for services those users want, ins

> A company in Google's position is exactly the company that could figure out how to get a billion users to pay them directly for services those users want, instead of using their eyeballs as commodities, but Google has put zero effort towards that highly desirable innovation. Fwiw Google has tried this more than once. It's just that the value that advertisers get is way higher than the value that consumers get. There are specific search terms that can go for more than $50 ad bids. Individuals can't really pay for that much. Like how much would you be willing to pay for Google search each year? > If this hypothesis were correct, we would have expected to see lawsuits against those other monopolies during, say, the Obama administration. But we didn't. This only follows if you believe the Obama and Trump admins are equally corrupt.