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| From | polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> |
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| Subject | Re: Advertisers Should Pay You |
| Date | Sun, 10 Jul 2016 20:08:34 +0100 |
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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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