Comment by eviks

> But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence.

But humanity has never been free of non-current forms of advertising

> The financial incentives to create addictive digital content would instantly disappear

No the wouldn't, you can still monetize addictive without ads

> Think about what's happened since 2016 ... fracture our social fabric along existing fault lines.

Just think about what happened before 2016 and how many times the social fabric had been fractured (sometimes also with foreign actors) ...