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Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I will check that out. In between you doing that and me thinking on it overnight, I ended up writing up my thoughts as a blog

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I will check that out. In between you doing that and me thinking on it overnight, I ended up writing up my thoughts as a blog post [0], which I have submitted here to HN as well [1]. [0]: https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0177-what-if-we-taxed-advertising https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0177-what-if-we-taxed-adver... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43620407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43620407

gsf_emergency 1y ago
https://economics.stackexchange.com/a/29598 https://economics.stackexchange.com/a/29598 [0] Slightly tangentially, to be ignored, until later (after careful reconsideration of doubts raised in your [1]: https://economics.stackexchange.com/a/29610[2] https://economics.stackexchange.com/a/29610[2]) In particular, to consider how unification of the 2 notions of excludability/rivalry can lead to the 2 actions of subsidies/taxation coalescing (thus going "beyond good & evil") [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43621295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43621295 [4] https://www.econlib.org/the-correlation-between-excludability-and-rivalry/ https://www.econlib.org/the-correlation-between-excludabilit... >Yet in the real world, both excludability and rivalry lie on a continuum.