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The Atlantic has posted an interesting article on internet advertising calling it The Internet's Original Sin. Written by Ethan Zuckerman, who worked at Tripod during the birth of online ads, the article does a good job identifying the issues with relying on ads as the primary source of funding behind the internet. Ethan also speculates on some possible solutions to the problem—which mostly lean toward subscriptions as funding.
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Advertising: the Internet's Original Sin
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Q: What is purple and commutes?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday August 19 2014, @04:14AM
Yep, charging interest is the sin of usury, very bad sin, might keep you out of heaven, you and your camel.
The questionable part of capitalism, however, are the related features of commodity fetishism and alienation. The first is an obsession with objects, property, or wealth and the incorrect notion that things are important in themselves, or possess intrinsic value. Alienation is the displacement of self-identity into external things, such as wealth, which separates people from others as well as themselves. Actual, real natural human are what they do, not what they own, and they will do things (this is called "labor") even if they are not paid, once past the level of sustenance.