I give half of what I earn to the most effective charities I can find That's not at all justification for practices that harm society, especially when that har

I give half of what I earn to the most effective charities I can find That's not at all justification for practices that harm society, especially when that harm takes fewer resources to achieve than charity donations can make up for. It's like saying "I'm willing to work for a company with massive pollution because I donate some of my salary to Greenpeace." Maybe I'm reading too much into things, but the fact that the author put this justification first is an implicit admission that they feel what they do is wrong in some way and try to offset it with donations. The thing is, I think advertising is positive It is difficult to think otherwise about something attached to your paycheck I think advertising is positive... if I'm causing harm through my work I would like to know about it. One really great example of harm is propaganda delivered via political attack ads that polarize the population by provoking anger, fear, and hatred. Ads. You pay with your attention. You aren't given a choice in most cases to choose attention or $$. You also pay with more than attention: your privacy, personal data, and tracking of online actions. Many off-line actions can also be tracked by purchasing data from other sources and matching to the data collected online. Non-regressive This would be a better point if many media outlets didn't still use paywalls and ads together