Too bad Gerry didn't ask an LLM to help him out with the article. A 'bit' over the top. In fact, it did make me wonder if this is supposed to be a send up spons

Too bad Gerry didn't ask an LLM to help him out with the article. A 'bit' over the top. In fact, it did make me wonder if this is supposed to be a send up sponsored by the Ad Council.. "Free. Any world built on free is a scam world, a grift world, a con world, a world of lies. And so much of the Internet is built on free. Because free is a lie. A Big Lie." OSS, gerry. Now mom and dad can't make ends meet not because of advertising but because the political economy changed. It is not because mom and dad are induced to consume more by advertising. No, Gerry, the purpose of advertising in that case is to offer 'consolation of consumerism' to deal with realities of the political economy and their seat at the table. No, Gerry, the actual problem with advertising is that it is used as a pretext to foist the Surveillance System on the Western "democracies" so that the little snitch we "must" carry on our person is made prone to surveillance "because advertising". The problem with AI as an social intermediary is that it can manipulate us, not to "buy stuff", no Gerry, but to change our minds about actually important matter. Stuff like keeping the folks who have a perch at the table above and want to keep it that way for themselves and their issue perpetually in power and control.