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No, because you can believe that the poor needs to be subsidized but disagree that ad-tech is the right approach. The poor also does not have the money to buy
by ulrikrasmussen 2y ago
No, because you can believe that the poor needs to be subsidized but disagree that ad-tech is the right approach.
The poor also does not have the money to buy expensive books, but that is why we have libraries funded by tax money - placing banner ads in the middle of textbooks would be a dystopia, but somehow we are more okay with it if the content is digital.
- miki123211 2y ago> placing banner ads in the middle of textbooks would be a dystopia The far-less capitalist, far more revered society that is Germany actually did this, far before the age of surveillance capitalism. Not sure about textbooks speficically, but it was definitely a thing with fiction, to the point of editing foreign books so that the ad would form part of the plot. See e.g. https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and-the-maggi-soup-adverts/ https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and...