Yep and in order for these companies to grow they must continue to increase the volume of ads being shown, which only makes them less effective, which they try and counter by making them ever more invasive.
If I can’t share a Curly Wurly then it’s not a revolution.
Yep and in order for these companies to grow they must continue to increase the volume of ads being shown, which only makes them less effective, which they try and counter by making them ever more invasive.
Yeah it’s a good book. It’s a cycle that this issue surfaces every couple of years where someone does a study, finds that the numbers they’re given don’t match their own analysis and the ad tech platform does some PR to paper over the story.
Most people selling ads are just like the real estate agents in The Big Short. The media people make their money via rebate from the platforms by guaranteeing a certain volume of spend so they have no incentive to be putting hard questions to the platforms and the client is reliant on seeing the data which is provided by the platform with no third parties able to provide any level of transparency.
Money goes into Google, Amazon and Meta’s black boxes which spit out numbers. The agency people copy and paste the figures into a presentation and everyone congratulates each other for a job well done.
The cost of digital advertising cannot be justified by its effectiveness (or rather lack there of). We’ve collectively spent hundreds of billions of dollars creating the infrastructure for invasive hyper targeted ads that do not get better results than simple billboards and terrestrial TV ads even now. We’ve created a global economy of marketing, media, advertising and sales solely reliant on technofeudalist overlords who’ve provided very little actual improvement of anything.
Folding Ideas video essay on this topic was brilliant https://youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw?si=mjT91zP6Kkr9qHCD
Yeah they’re kind of the ultimate monopolization machine
Did they ever? They bought PageMaker in 1994 and Photoshop in 1995. They bought Macromedia in 2006, GoLive, Live motion, Typekit, Behance… Is there anything they’ve ever bought they haven’t slowly ruined with financialisation or just outright shuttering what would have been competition?
I have four tyres in pretty good condition on my car, that’s $1000 right there.
I appreciate this doesn’t work for everyone and might not be a long term solution, but I dropped 20kg by fasting on a 20:4 schedule.
“Fraggles don’t have any bosses […] We each lead ourselves and we all lead each other.” - Wembley Fraggle, Fraggle Rock
See Democratic Confederalism. https://youtu.be/BKRHyF78j2I?si=5tHIXPtGNI0jW5Jq
Australia. Here’s a tidbit on the cherry ballart.
https://theconversation.com/native-cherries-are-a-bit-mysterious-and-possibly-inside-out-108760
There are broadly 150 indigenous language groups but only about 14 are still in common use.
If you’ve worked for a single company/system for 7 years you get a bonus 6 weeks ‘long-service’ leave.
We have a native cherry that grows inside out called a cherry ballart.
Our cuisine is really varied depending on your geography with a lot of soth East Asian influences. Most people will make stir-fry reasonably often and we have our own variations of sushi and dim sum which would offend most Japanese or Chinese people.
Radical Aid Force, Koala Clancy, Wikipedia, Action Aid and Disaster Relief Australia
She was just adjusting the cherry
“…we are the citizens that make up the government that designs the governance rules for our nation-state.”
No we’re not. We only have the illusion of control where we are allowed to vote on how to tinker with the outer edges of a system that is in reality controlled by 0.1% of the population.
Isn’t that what people have been saying for decades? Yet the ‘economic miracle of Japan’ just keeps rolling.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/14/japan-economy-neoliberalism-east-asia-washington-consensus-imf/
Oh wow that’s insane to leave those essentials out of the calculation.
Shit isn’t good here either, energy costs increased by 20-25% in just a quarter, homelessness rising, wages have fallen in real terms over the last two decades while company profits have soared, renting is out of reach of most young people while the older generation is retiring with multiple homes. The share of GDP that goes into people’s pockets is literally the opposite of what it was in the 1950s.
Why aren’t people taking a closer look at Japan? Their inflation rate is down 929% from last year, without adjusting the cash rate.
Why is it that the EU, UK, Canada, NZ, USA and Australia all keep trying to reach the same goal of suppressing demand until unemployment is high enough for prices to fall. It’s insane.
What I was basing my observation on: https://theconversation.com/japan-has-gone-its-own-way-on-fighting-inflation-can-nz-learn-from-a-global-outlier-210618
Watched a lot of Binging With Babish and Just got tired of his schtick I think. Same with the How To Drink guy.