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What "ad bubble"? Ads are merely how other bubbles monetize.

It is the eyeball bubble.

The quintessential examples of this phenomenon are Twitter, and potentially snapchat.

The idea of the "ad bubble" is that you have to have a massive amount of users to make the system work. And if growth stops... Well there goes your company.

The bubble is that ads can't really pay for the ridiculous valuations that some of these companies are getting.

Yea, that is part of why I knew that printing money using basic income would only encourage it.

What?

I believe my non native speaker friend means that UBI does not address fundamental flaws in valuation in a Capitalistic system. Flaws thar would amount to concentration of wealth via advertising conglomerates , although I may be way off the mark.

I mean, printing money using basic income would not boost the economy until consumers spend it, right?

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