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> Wealth inequality from predominantly ads-based (tv-deals) business models is a cancer to our society. How do you solve this? People want to pay attention, ad
by lbotos 3y ago
> Wealth inequality from predominantly ads-based (tv-deals) business models is a cancer to our society.
How do you solve this? People want to pay attention, advertisers want a piece. They have $enough_profit_to_pay_for_ads, so they do.
- _5uxp 3y agoU don't and masses are stupid. They elect thiefs, all over the world.
- salawat 3y agoPeople specifically want to pay attention to what they care about. Advertisers want to swap what they care about with their ads. In fact, last time I watched television, programming was more ad than TV. To hell with advertisers.
- flir 3y agoIn the same way you pump oil out of the sump where it accumulates, and back into the engine where it can enable useful work, you tax money out of rich, economically active people where it accumulates and inject it back into poor people, where it enables useful work. The poor will spend it, and it will accumulate with the rich again soon enough, but it enables economic activity along the way.