Well we have gone through times when workers were mistreated; the start of the industrial revolution. It took our grandparents a lot of pain to get the legal protections many workers take for granted. Protections that have been consistently eroded.
Society's creation is a pie, and what % of GDP goes to labor vs capital classes is not fixed. It fluxes and wanes. Over the last 50 years labor's percentage of GDP has fallen consistently.
There are a number of objective measures that support this idea, none of them are perfect, but they tend to show a clear trend:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_share
But in the country I live in, the USA, landlords are liable for many things their tenants do.
A friend of mine is a landlord and he almost lost a house he owns because his tenant was cooking meth in it. I don't remember the exact details, but the liability was no joke.
P.S. I don't agree with this liability issue, I'm simply describing reality as it is.
> More clicks on ads that lead to malware also leads to fewer clicks in the future, though.
I really doubt this works this way. There's 3 assumptions here, for your scenario to play out, people must pass the following funnels:
1- The person notices the malware
2- The person associates the connection between the ad and the malware.
3- After making the connection they install a non-dummy adblocker. Dummy adblockers like the one by Eyeo whitelist google's ads while actually harming the competition. It benefits them! Note: if I look up adblock on google, uBlock is only mentioned on page 2 of google and only because it's mentioned as a competitor to adblock on a zdnet article. The first whole page is dedicated to the Eyeo plug in.
I'd say very few people will get through that funnel. My experience is that when my family and friends actually seek out help with their computers, they have let it go for years until the computer is a slow mess of malware, self installed spyware in the form of browser add ons and other crazy stuff.
I've actually known a person who buys a computer every couple of years when it 'gets slow' simply to avoid maintenance. The few that I know from IRL relationships that do use an adblock, mostly use adblock by Eyeo, simply because of the domain and ranking on google.
Honestly, the second google started owning and promoting their own properties on search results, anti-trust regulators should have jumped on it.
I'm really not sure how Google can be protected by Section 230 and at the same time control and publish so much directly. Last time I read an article on the topic, google controls 23% of the top 100 sites.
Society's creation is a pie, and what % of GDP goes to labor vs capital classes is not fixed. It fluxes and wanes. Over the last 50 years labor's percentage of GDP has fallen consistently.
There are a number of objective measures that support this idea, none of them are perfect, but they tend to show a clear trend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_share