In ancient times, wealth was based on controlling farmland and extracting food from peasants. Modern economies don’t work like that, so what you can learn from historical analogies is limited.

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chadgpt3 10 hours ago | parent [-]

They're still based on controlling shares and extracting profits from workers. Very similar.

	▲	skybrian 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oddly, for some companies, the money comes from advertisers. When this started becoming a thing, I figured it would be a bubble and eventually businesses would wise up, but they've kept on paying for decades now.