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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
arent newspapers like over 65% ads? LOL  |
Yes but you still are grasping the wrong straws.
People buy newspapers to read the news. The cost is carried by the advertisers who pay for the news to be gathered.
People buy porn to jerk off. The cost is carried by the buyers. Give the porn away for free, why buy? You can jerk off to the free.
If there was a person giving away The New York Times, without ads, in front of a news stand selling The New York Times. How do you think that would effect the news stand's revenue?
Compare like with like please.
1. Ignorance (No one thought giving the product away for free would devastate sales of the product.)
2. Error (When they did, they gave away more.)
3. Immediate interest, which may override long-term interests. (Welcome to the long term.)
4. Basic values may require or prohibit certain actions even if the long-term result might be unfavorable (these long-term consequences may eventually cause changes in basic values)
Buyers no longer buying.
5. Self-defeating prophecy (Inability to predict the obvious consequences of bad decisions.) How many prophesied giving away porn for free would hurt selling porn?
Good post Jimmy.