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Ads aren't money, they are a thing you spend money on. What you're describing is leveling the playing field. Without Ads you'd have 10 entrepreneurs. With it y
by mgraczyk 2y ago
Ads aren't money, they are a thing you spend money on.
What you're describing is leveling the playing field. Without Ads you'd have 10 entrepreneurs. With it you have 10000
- onion2k 2y agoWithout Ads you'd have 10 entrepreneurs. With it you have 10000 Before the internet was fuelled by ads there were some ad-free directories and human-curated lists of websites that people seemed to like quite a lot. That could have been a viable alternative. I'm not suggesting the proliferation of ads has been bad for the web. Far from it. It means anyone with an ad budget can compete, which is a valid point. The problem that brings is that so much of the success of a product comes from the marketing budget now. In a market where the worst product can win if it has a bigger ad spend, it's hard to believe ads are a net benefit.
- Timwi 2y agoI'd rather have 10 entrepreneurs passionately engaged in their genuine interest to improve lives, than 10,000 entrepreneurs racing and competing with each other to see who can exploit more people and extract more wealth for themselves.
- mgraczyk 2y agoThe 10 will all be born rich And almost no startups extract or exploit. The reason Europe is so poor and not growing is because of this dark turn toward zero sum thinking. Startups literally create new wealth, it's not taken from somewhere (except rare cases of fraud or scams)
- account42 2y agoAds exist in Europe just as much as they do in the US (unfortunately). Even the restrictions on tracking are a very recent (and welcome) change.