[NoMoreNicksLeft]

>First of all, having to buy each account for $50 instead of spinning up thousands for free would shut

Would cost them chump change. You've added an operating expense. When bot farms have giant walls of smartphones bolted into specially-designed rigs, that means they're already used to operating costs that are non-trivial.

>Second, the move toward identity verification will eventually make even selling accounts like this impossible.

How do you figure that? Even if some scheme is invented where a person can verify that it's them, that will be part of the sale. They will make it possible for the third party to do the verification too. If you've got some genius scheme though where that is impossible, I'd love to hear it. Something that only the person themselves can do, and others can't impersonate them even with permission.

[IAmGraydon]

>How do you figure that?

Because it limits supply. The percentage of the population willing to do this will eventually run out of identities to sell.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

>Because it limits supply.

Theoretically it limits supply. Pragmatically, it limits supply to whatever fraction of the world's poorest 4 billion people are easy enough to cut a deal with. In other words, "still sufficient to cause the same sorts of misery as identity-less bots already cause".