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"Bubble" may be wishful thinking, but can you really argue that it's not "labor mis-allocation?"

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."

By intentionally sewing economic irrationality (ie beyond how irrational humans are already), advertising destroys societal value. Here I use "irrational" in the sense of "making self-harming economic decisions."




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