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by lazide 473 days ago
Agree - I think another way to put it, is the advertising industry is positive ROI directly, but has severe negative externalities. Especially when ramped up to the extent it currently is, and likely will continue to be even more.

It’s a similar analogy to global warming/fossil fuels IMO. As long as we don’t care about the somewhat invisible co2 part of it slowly cooking us to death, it’s awesome.