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but ads exist to convince people to buy things. if people can't afford to buy things, why would you need ads?


Products will become advertisements themselves. It could be cheaper and more effective to send everyone a box of Tesla Tasty-Electrons cereal than TV or Social media and slots.

Casinos provide free drinks, cartels offer free prostitutes, it's not unprecedented.


> Casinos provide free drinks

Because people will spend money. The premise here is no-one has money, but somehow adverts exist.


you may not need to buy a box of cereal or a vacuum cleaner, but maybe a flight to moon, or a humanoid companion? products move up a level


And what labor are you going to be doing to afford those upleveled products?


it's a good question. what would true abundance look like? I can't wait to find out


>what would true abundance look like

If we don't solve greed first, it looks like one guy with a quadrillion dollars and everyone else starving/dead.


So they can buy things with their ad-watching money.


Maybe we pay people a small fee to watch ads?




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