> I wish economics and entrepreneurship, the lifeblood of the modern world, were mandatory subjects in school. I've taken both. maybe MAYBE 1% of the ads I se

> I wish economics and entrepreneurship, the lifeblood of the modern world, were mandatory subjects in school. I've taken both. maybe MAYBE 1% of the ads I see on any given day are for discoverability. But lets be real tracking cookies aren't there to figure out if you already know about a service. Advertising isn't about discoverability. > How can new ideas and new information enter the fray if things like advertising is banned? You're asking "if people can't pay to force other people to see things, how would anyone ever find anything?" The answer is that most "finding" is done because someone wants something, not because they are made to want it. When someone wants something, they usually start by looking for where that thing is. There are numerous resources for achieving this outside of advertisements. Of course companies will optimise these avenues, the old call-your-company-acme-to-be-at-front-of-phone-book or whatever. That's fine, so long as they aren't paying to put stuff in places other than where im literally searching for the service they offer. In other news, this amazingly staggerly large buisness, literally the biggest economy sector in the world, is laughably ineffective. Ask most people about the companies in any given sector and they can name only one or two.