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I think it might be an allusion to the Jeff Hammerbacher quote "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads".

• segfaultbuserr 6y ago
  Or optimizing microseconds out of high-frequency trading algorithms. Quote James Tobin (1984), > I [suspect] that we are throwing more and more of our resources, including the cream of our youth, into financial activities remote from the production of goods and services, into activities that generate high private rewards disproportionate to their social productivity. I suspect that the immense power of the computer is being harnessed to this 'paper economy', not to do the same transactions more economically but to balloon the quantity and variety of financial exchanges.
• sunstone 6y ago
  In my twenty five years of browsing the web I've clicked on two ads. The second one very recently. I guess it's a tough job.