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"then the value they have created has been extracted from more people than probably any other company in history." take a basic economics course. it's not a ze
by donjigweed 15y ago
"then the value they have created has been extracted from more people than probably any other company in history."
take a basic economics course. it's not a zero sum game.
- rbarooah 15y agoThe ad consumers experience an externality to the transaction between google and the publisher. The sum of the game may be negative or positive. Which do you think it is, and why?
- Drbble 15y agoGoogle's ads are the single easiest-to-block set of ads in the history of mankind, online or meatspace. The simple fact that most folks don't bother to block then show that either they aren't too negative, or people are so dumb and lazy that humanity is a lost cause anyway.
- rbarooah 15y agoOnly if you assume that being 'dumb' or 'lazy' is predominantly innate and not shaped by experience or opportunity.