The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising hastraditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
2022 December 22, Vanessa Yurkevich, “America needs immigrants to solve its labor shortage”, inCNN[1]:
Skilled foreign farm workers are the backbone of US agriculture and aretraditionally in the US on H-2A seasonal visas, which saw its highest ever utilization rate this year, according to the Farm Bureau.
