Spam is not a technical problem, it's a societal problem. As usual the tech reflex is to find a technical solution but it is mistaken, once again. Societal proplems require societal solutions, not more tech. The only thing you will achieve with more tech is more segregation between those who have and those who don't, you'll create more issues than already exist
The other side of that balance is that capitalism creating artificial incentives for bad behavior is a significant component of spam.
Any communication medium that is cheap and easy will be relentlessly abused by spammers.
Spam is 100% a technical problem. Any "societal solution" will be orders of magnitude more expensive and less robust than technical solutions.
> Any "societal solution" will be orders of magnitude more expensive and less robust than technical solutions.
Yes, yes, it is quite expensive, though you'd find it would actually be quite more robust.
Snake oil salesmen were not created because of lax technical infrastructure. Spam is not a technical problem because scammers exist, it's a technical problem because the technology is what lets them reach you. The technology can then be amended so they can't reach you and spam is solved. I'm not purporting to solve scams, but to solve the technical mistakes that lets scammers spam you.