Comment by emil-lp
Comment by emil-lp a day ago
That's obviously not true. It significantly favor those with more money.
Comment by emil-lp a day ago
That's obviously not true. It significantly favor those with more money.
Yes giving people with fewer resources an option to pay with their attention is a morally good thing for society, actually.
DTC 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
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/
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
It'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.