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Advertisement is unquestionably a net positive for society and humanity. It's one of the few true positive sum business models where everyone is better off.
by vikinghckr 10mo ago
Advertisement is unquestionably a net positive for society and humanity. It's one of the few true positive sum business models where everyone is better off.
- emil-lp 10mo agoThat's obviously not true. It significantly favor those with more money.
- vikinghckr 10mo agoIt's the exact opposite. Advertising-based model is why the poorest people in the poorest countries in the world have had access to the exact same Google search, YouTube and Facebook as the richest people in the US. Ad-supported business models are the great equalizers of wealth.
- _lyxd 10mo agoSubsidizing the poor via ads is what we cheer for? bike theif brained understanding
- vikinghckr 10mo agoYes giving people with fewer resources an option to pay with their attention is a morally good thing for society, actually.
- tadfisher 10mo agoEven better, morally, to give the product to them without harvesting their attention or personal data
- vikinghckr 10mo agoNo, that's charity, which while morally great is not sustainable at scale and in the long run.
- tadfisher 10mo agoDisagree; these users are already subsidized by those who click ads and buy things.
- AlexandrB 10mo agoConsidering how prominent gambling and gambling advertising is, aren't we creating more poverty and keeping people poor through ads? Advertising seems like it's a net drain on the poor through encouraging consumption people can't afford and pushing a variety of vices. Edit: "Sorry your husband lost the money you were saving for a house on stake.com, but here's your free Google search."
- doctorpangloss 10mo agoDTC pharmaceutical ads, which RFKJR wants to ban for essentially reasons of vibes, cause better health outcomes https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/695475 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/695475 not merely correlation but causation. the approach used here was part of a family of approaches that won the Nobel in 2012 another good one: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37275770/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37275770/ advertising caused increases in treatment and adherence to medicine the digital ads market is hundreds of billions of dollars, it is a bad idea to generalize about it. that said, of course ben thompson or whoever, they're not like, citing any of this research, it's still all based on vibes
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- ComplexSystems 10mo agoI became even better off when I installed an ad blocker.
- matkoniecz 10mo ago"unquestionably"? Given that vast majority of ads are for harmful self-destructive projects or misleading or lying or make place where they got spammed worse... Sometimes multiple at once. Spam alone (also advertisement) is quite annoying and destructive.
- GrinningFool 10mo agoAdvertising is a necessary thing and can be beneficial to everyone. I have something to sell, you want to buy that thing, and know you know I'm selling it. Win win. On the other hand, the advertisement and associated privacy-brokerage industries are a very different story
- AlexandrB 10mo agoThe whole "attention economy" is a cancerous outgrowth of advertising. When the customer is paying with their time instead of money, wasting their time becomes your goal. The impact on society is hard to measure, but it's not nothing and I would argue a net-negative.
- tsunamifury 10mo agoYou are shadow blocked fyi
- vikinghckr 10mo agoYou have been perma banned from HN fyi