It seems more likely that you are in a bubble. Most people aren't like Hacker News commenters. A data point: Google gets most of its revenue from selling ads a

It seems more likely that you are in a bubble. Most people aren't like Hacker News commenters. A data point: Google gets most of its revenue from selling ads and they're doing ok. Presumably, if advertising stopped working then their revenue would be going down a lot? There's an entire industry that would notice.