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If the economy can't survive the loss of these abusers, it deserves to be destroyed. If we do something, we gotta go all the way. Half-measures do nothing.

You do realize what the destruction of the economy would entail? That it would mean that many people would lose their livelihood and suffer?

It turns out that people actually prefer getting products for free with ads to paying for products. As bad as google and facebook are, they are providing what people want at the exact price point they want.

I think banning online ads will be awesome for economy.

Serving ads is doesn't create any value. By now, it's just a tax to be payed to google/facebook.

Why do you think banning online ads gonna destroy the economy?

These internet companies don't even pay a lot of taxes, we allow them to move profit across jurisdictions to optimize.

If the economy only stands because of people consuming things they never would've bought on their own it deserves to burn. This mentality is killing us along with the planet.

I really want to see a society wide experiment on banning ALL forms of advertising, be it digital or physical.