> People's urge to rid the world of ads is similar to our urge to rid the world of "middlemen".

This is a lazy strawman and not what the author of the post argued for.

> It's natural, and I get it (ads are annoying), but this is a forum where I expect people to think a little more deeply about the economics and second order effects of things.

Then maybe contribute to the dialog on that front. The article did so more than your comment setting up a strawman.