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Re: Advertisers Should Pay You

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On 10/07/2016 16:36, Rich wrote:
> http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2015/07/advertisers-should-pay-you.html
>
> Quoting from the URL above:
>
>    Advertising is a natural resource extraction industry, like a fishery.
>    Its business is the harvest and sale of human attention. We are the fish
>    and we are not consulted.
>
>    Two problems result from this. The solution to both requires legal
>    recognition of the property rights of human beings over our attention.
>
>    First, advertising imposes costs on individuals without permission or
>    compensation. It extracts our precious attention and emits toxic
>    byproducts, such as the sale of our personal information to dodgy third
>    parties.
>
>    Second, you may have noticed that the world's fisheries are not in great
>    shape. They are a standard example for explaining the theoretical
>    concept of a tragedy of the commons, where rational maximising behaviour
>    by individual harvesters leads to the unsustainable overexploitation of
>    a resource. Expensively trained human attention is the fuel of 21st
>    century capitalism. We are allowing a single industry to slash and burn
>    vast amounts of this productive resource in search of a quick buck.
>
>    ...
>
I have often felt that many advertising techniques are stealing my 
time/attention/bandwidth/whatever else. It ends with those who know how 
blocking as much advertising as they can, but that really doesn't 
address the underlying impact on society.

-- 
Rod

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Advertisers Should Pay You Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-07-10 15:36 +0000
  Re: Advertisers Should Pay You polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2016-07-10 20:08 +0100
  Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-07-10 19:31 +0000
    Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-07-10 21:50 +0200
      Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-07-10 21:17 +0000
    Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-07-10 22:30 +0100
      Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-07-11 09:07 +0200
  Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-07-11 13:22 +1000
  Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-11 08:47 -0500
  Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-08-25 13:48 -0400

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