The Price of Free Google Report.
Proton analyzed over 54,000 demographic profiles using 2025 ad auction data to estimate what advertisers pay to reach different types of Americans. The range is much wider than you might expect.
The average American generates about $1,605 a year in advertising value. A 35- to 44-year-old man in Bozeman, MT, without children, using a desktop and making high-value corporate searches, generates an estimated $17,929.30. An 18- to 24-year-old father in Fort Smith, AR, using an Android phone and making low-value searches, generates $31.05.
That’s a 577x difference between two people using the same free service.
And the assholes only give me back like 2 bucks.
Tax them and turn that into a UBI.
Even if you got the full 1k that would never be enough to survive. Maybe a yearly stimulus check
UBI isn’t about stopping working and not earning more money. It’s about giving everyone a minimum so they can be picky, and jobs have to offer conditions that are literally better than nothing, as ‘nothing’ now comes with UBI.
There are also places where 1k is more than enough, and those places tend to be depopulated.