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Google Search's Ad-Driven Bias
- Google search results prioritize ads over relevance due to conflicting incentives.
- Users have adapted by developing media literacy, but many remain vulnerable to misleading ads.
Commerce as Human Cooperation
- Commerce has always been essential to human society through cooperation and specialization.
- The idea that people once lived without buying goods is a false utopian notion.
Department Stores as Civic Centers
- Industrial barons created department stores to attract and cultivate a middle class consumer base.
- These stores served as civic centers, blending commerce with social status and public life.