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”The march to make things more efficient makes the world a worse place. The idea that we would efficiently measure how effective advertising was through clicks & eyeballs erased all the extra money that made all the journalism and pop culture that you cared about in the 20th century. It made it all possible. The inefficiency of the advertising system made everything good in this world. The idea that you’re trying to get things to be as efficient as possible is a terrible, world-destroying idea."

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