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Benjamin Franklin was so close. "Nothing is certain but death ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶a̶x̶e̶s̶.̶"̶, taxes, and ads."
by cyode 1y ago
Benjamin Franklin was so close.
"Nothing is certain but death ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶a̶x̶e̶s̶.̶"̶, taxes, and ads."
- neverfrankled 1y agoFranklin was a publisher, and sold advertising, no? Washington wasn't much of a Temperance preacher neither.
- morkalork 1y agoNow I'm wondering, the first news papers were sold out on the street. How long was it before there were ads in them? And was there the same intellectual hand-wringing about it at the time?
- Nasrudith 1y agoThe first newspaper ad was for a book and in the 1620s. I am not certain about intellectual handwringing but there were people who considered making money through commerce at all as morally wrong due to it involving neither toil as they recognized it nor might-makes-right. Based upon some truly stupid ideas of "fair price" and assumptions of fixed universal prices meaning that any merchant had to be a scammer.
- morkalork 1y ago>people who considered making money through commerce at all as morally wrong due to it involving neither toil as they recognized it How very puritanical! That was the style at the time though.
- FiatLuxDave 1y agoI'm certain we need to start taxing ads.
- EasyMark 1y agoehhhh taxes always get passed along to customers.