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    The purpose of SE (and every other company, to be fair) is to make as much money as possible. Advertising is "needed" because it results in more money. Commented Nov 12, 2024 at 14:20
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    You mean Teams, and I'm pretty sure it's not going as well as they planned, to say the least, otherwise we would have been in a much better place. Commented Nov 12, 2024 at 15:15
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    Even under a completely altruistic model, more money is more funds that can be spent to build the platform– better, more quickly, more extensively, etc. There isn't really such a think as "more than enough money" in a corporate context; more money will always (to a point) mean more freedom to do more stuff. Commented Nov 12, 2024 at 16:14
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    It might be less painful and more effective than other means of making money. Commented Nov 21, 2024 at 18:17
  • What work? You volunteer your service of your own accord. If you want to be paid, get a contract that says so, or else accept that you're donating your time to the world at large and someone somewhere is going to skim off the top of that. @elemtilas Commented Nov 27, 2024 at 11:00
  • Yeah, we generate the content. For free. And SE makes it available to the world. For free. If you want the money for yourself, find a better way for SE to earn it, because they're already profiting and you haven't demanded a thing from that money yet. Commented Nov 27, 2024 at 18:13