All of your assumptions - and the article's - are rooted in this profoundly unequal society. The very worst of us are making billions on our collective sufferin

All of your assumptions - and the article's - are rooted in this profoundly unequal society. The very worst of us are making billions on our collective suffering, and will gladly keep murdering millions to keep it that way. That's the context missing from tfa. Universal basic income, as an example, makes debates like this irrelevant. There may be other ways to run things that also make these arguments look like the anachronism they ought to be. I believe a world with 99% less advertising is not only possible, but necessary. And I believe a world where creators can create, without having to sell their souls, is not only possible but necessary. And we best make that world manifest fast, before our window closes.