the more walls are put up, the more ad consumption becomes a deliberate choice and not something that is snuck by people as they use social media. it's a good

the more walls are put up, the more ad consumption becomes a deliberate choice and not something that is snuck by people as they use social media. it's a good organic balance we're working towards, the optimum amount of gatekeeping and profit-sharing. as I said in an earlier post, the amount of money regular people lose bc of ads > the amount of people in the ad business pay out to "content creators" >> Those families are indirectly paying that price today, through their ad-influenced purchases. >> Not only are they paying for the end-product, but they're paying for the arms-race between advertisers as well, and that's a huge industry. >> The amount of money the ad industry deals out to "content providers" must necessarily be less than the amount they get paid by their clients, which in turn must be less than the amount people paid to those clients. >> If the distribution is not uniform, and some people benefit from the ad-influenced overspending of others, the business is then predatory.