{"id":3978,"date":"2022-04-09T20:32:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T20:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2022-04-09T20:32:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T20:32:15","slug":"perspective-on-money-and-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/04\/perspective-on-money-and-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective on money and ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading a conversation about ads and how much we all dislike them, that we tolerate them until we can\u2019t. How advertising is psychological warfare, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Then I realized that Facebook\/Meta in 2020 made <em>$32.6 billion in profit<\/em>, off ads.<\/p>\n<p>2 years of Facebook profit would pay for the six next-generation nuclear plants that France is planning on building.<\/p>\n<p>Let me rephrase that.<\/p>\n<p>A couple years of one single COMPANY\u2019s profit is enough to pay for one COUNTRY to stay energy-wise, independent. That\u2019s incredible. Staggering.<\/p>\n<p>Ads work way too well. Which is why they suck. Which is why they are still here. Because they work so well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading a conversation about ads and how much we all dislike them, that we tolerate them until we can\u2019t. How advertising is psychological warfare, etc. Then I realized that Facebook\/Meta in 2020 made $32.6 billion in profit, off ads. 2 years of Facebook profit would pay for the six next-generation nuclear plants that France is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3979,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}