• nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    This is a false dichotomy, and illustrates the pernicious terminal incuriosity and learned helplessness modern society incentivises, rewards, and celebrates.

    There are models other than incendiary extraction and debasement which can be implemented to value and promote creative work. Elevating the legitimacy of advertising in its current role perpetuates its abuse, and suppresses these preferable alternatives.

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      Care to share some of those models?

      In the society where I live, journalists, artists, developers and others like to have food and shelter. Ads is 9nr way of paying for it, cash is another. What do you propose, paying in exposure?