Sure first you can just advertise inferior goods. The quarterly thirty dollar boots when people can no afford longer the 120 dollar boots which last years. Later you can start advertising cheap credit to cover daily needs. Then the datamining starts. If people can't provide revenue directly we'll collect so much data that some profit generating stream will appear. But eventually the entire sector should collapse as the consumer won't have money to spend freely.
It is. The whole fuel for big tech is being able to sell data, and selling data is only useful for marketing / advertising. At a certain point (that we passed long ago) you get extremely diminishing returns because you're already targeting and reaching everyone. Tbh this will mostly affect Google, where as Facebook's main product is not strictly advertising to people, but changing what masses of people actually think.
never underestimate the level of creativity and talent that goes into inventing new ways to fuck us over. i imagine it was inconceivable a few decades ago 'advertizing' would pivot into outright spying but here we are
Guarantee of a share of future earnings in exchange for an education, anyone?
It's almost like infinite growth on a finite planet isn't sustainable.
Not as educated as the other people posting but I always thought that the model under capitalism is just don't be left holding the bag. The people profiting under advertising have probably jumped ship or are planning to before the bubble pops. If some of them are left holding the bag then they can just get the government to bail them out anyway.
Maybe when the advertising bubble finally bursts, we'll stop seeing ads fucking everywhere
