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So they can buy things with their ad-watching money.

you may not need to buy a box of cereal or a vacuum cleaner, but maybe a flight to moon, or a humanoid companion? products move up a level

And what labor are you going to be doing to afford those upleveled products?

it's a good question. what would true abundance look like? I can't wait to find out

>what would true abundance look like

If we don't solve greed first, it looks like one guy with a quadrillion dollars and everyone else starving/dead.

Products will become advertisements themselves. It could be cheaper and more effective to send everyone a box of Tesla Tasty-Electrons cereal than TV or Social media and slots.

Casinos provide free drinks, cartels offer free prostitutes, it's not unprecedented.

> Casinos provide free drinks

Because people will spend money. The premise here is no-one has money, but somehow adverts exist.

Maybe we pay people a small fee to watch ads?