← Back to context Comment by philipallstar 3 days ago Why would that hurt a consumption-based economy? 5 comments philipallstar Reply twodave 3 days ago Telcos make money off of scammer activity. colechristensen 3 days ago Maybe in the same way that Office Depot makes money on the envelopes used in mail fraud swed420 3 days ago It's a vector for advertising. philipallstar 3 days ago But that's not a consumer initiative. Advertising can come from all sorts of places that the consumer doesn't like, and in economies where advanced levels of consumer choice are limited to the state bureaucrats. swed420 2 days ago > But that's not a consumer initiative.Seems irrelevant to the original point.
twodave 3 days ago Telcos make money off of scammer activity. colechristensen 3 days ago Maybe in the same way that Office Depot makes money on the envelopes used in mail fraud
colechristensen 3 days ago Maybe in the same way that Office Depot makes money on the envelopes used in mail fraud
swed420 3 days ago It's a vector for advertising. philipallstar 3 days ago But that's not a consumer initiative. Advertising can come from all sorts of places that the consumer doesn't like, and in economies where advanced levels of consumer choice are limited to the state bureaucrats. swed420 2 days ago > But that's not a consumer initiative.Seems irrelevant to the original point.
philipallstar 3 days ago But that's not a consumer initiative. Advertising can come from all sorts of places that the consumer doesn't like, and in economies where advanced levels of consumer choice are limited to the state bureaucrats. swed420 2 days ago > But that's not a consumer initiative.Seems irrelevant to the original point.
Telcos make money off of scammer activity.
Maybe in the same way that Office Depot makes money on the envelopes used in mail fraud
It's a vector for advertising.
But that's not a consumer initiative. Advertising can come from all sorts of places that the consumer doesn't like, and in economies where advanced levels of consumer choice are limited to the state bureaucrats.
> But that's not a consumer initiative.
Seems irrelevant to the original point.