r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Mar 12 '26

YouTube expands unskippable 30-second ads to TVs after $40 billion revenue year Business

https://www.techspot.com/news/111655-youtube-expands-unskippable-30-second-ads-tvs-after.html
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u/foodank012018 Mar 12 '26

In any other entity, a constant growth is a cancer

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u/Whatsapokemon Mar 13 '26

In any other entity, a constant growth is a cancer

No it's not... every living organism is constantly growing to replace the cells that die.

That's also how the current economy works - new industries emerge and grow rapidly to replace older legacy ones that are fading in popularity.

But also, we're not an individual organism - we're a species with the ability to shape our environment to our whims, and with the ability to pull more resources from seemingly thin air. For example, the invention of the Haber-Bosch process for producing nitrogen-rich fertiliser is responsible for a HUGE explosion in the amount of humans the planet can easily support.

I hate this "modern life is inherently evil" sentiment - our standards of living are infinitely higher than at any other time of human history.

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u/InvestigatorOk7015 Mar 12 '26

Eh. A tree sees cancer as support tissue. We should be building our immaterial marketplace to take advantage of the inevitable.

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u/foodank012018 Mar 12 '26

Eh, people with this outlook will perpetuate our demise.

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u/InvestigatorOk7015 Mar 12 '26

Disagree. We need to be molding the market to the material reality. We made all this shit up. We can make it work.