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I don't want to detract from companies doing good work, but ad tech and social media taking up so much of society's resource capital is a tragedy in my eyes. So

• treis 6y ago
  It's just not true. Like saying all our athletic prowess is being spent on selling shoes. That's how they make their money but it's a small amount of effort from the athlete. Most of their effort is focused playing their sport. Similarly, only a small percentage of Google/Facebook's effort go towards ads. Most of it goes toward building products, languages, tools, and more.
  • ehnto 6y ago
    To clarify I didn't say all of the effort, just that it's a shame how much of the effort goes into advertising.