But what is actually being paid for? Who is ultimately paying "our" salaries? Why?

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”

~ Jeff Hammerbacher, fmr. Manager of Facebook Data Team, founder of Cloudera. http://daltoncaldwell.com/an-audacious-proposal

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

~ Upton Sinclair