Okay, well most people who have issues with digital advertising don’t have as much a problem with ads as they have a problem with the negative externalities of how ads are currently implemented on the web. It sounds like you might have a bit of an extreme view.

As evidenced by lack of general public outrage over e.g. advertisements in magazines or newspapers.

You don’t think there’s at least a minor difference between an ad that directly pertains to the content you are directly reading, and is in fact from the same “vendor,” versus an ad piped in from an auction driven by your browsing behavior from all over the internet?

Also you have to look up how to open it (regardless of where you live) if you haven’t encountered one before. Truly, truly bizarre design.

Because it’s a different issue with different principals involved.

Does the federal government set the national number of teachers who can be trained each year?

Oh okay. Guess we’ll just continue to have 1997 level supply of doctors forever.

I don’t even know what argument you’re trying to make here? It’ll take time to solve? Yeah, obviously. That’s why we should start ASAP and given that we don’t have a time machine, that’d mean right now.

What? People benefit from higher land prices?

The opioid issue is absolutely a big degradation in QOL from recent years, but no the current crime rate is still well below decades ago, especially on a per capita basis.

https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_p...

You’re describing problems that are all solved by money.

It’s the land price. Gets baked into every single good and service and goes up in lockstep with productivity gains.

Crime is much much lower than it was decades ago almost everywhere in the US.

Also “run down” in reference to cities is just not true outside of a few failed areas like Detroit. NYC today is dramatically nicer than it was decades ago.

This is easy: how much did an acre of land in Palo Alto cost then, and how much does it cost now? Why? Why does the price of land “need” to go up? It pays no wages, no rent, no suppliers, no anything. It’s just there being land, no matter what price it is. So why has its price gone up and who benefits from that?

You just spend more money to scale the program. Funding for the residency program has been frozen since the late 90s, the demand for doctors has not been.

Vibes > clinical trials

What's there to criticize if it's not bad?