The ad supported model on the internet and TV is far more expensive for the users. For example it allows inflation of the worthless products by creating a value disconnected from the utility of a product (AKA a religious experience). At the same time the model disrupts the value and the payments for the creative output of the creative class and concentrates the centralized wealth around the media servers and transmitters. The free is ultimately impoverishing.
Further reading:Not paying for things in the long run is far more expensive
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The cheapest is rarely the least expensive.