The Economics of Spam.¶
Rao, J. M., & Reiley, D. H. (2012). The Economics of Spam. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26(3), 87-110.
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Primes¶
- Brandolini's Law
- Spam and content moderation — producing spam is automatable and near-zero-marginal-cost; filtering it requires continuously updated classifiers, human review, and infrastructure.
This sourceDocuments that sending spam has near-zero marginal cost (profitable at one purchase per ~3 million emails) while the externalized cost of filtering and lost attention runs ~100:1 against — the cheap-production/costly-correction asymmetry in spam and content moderation.
- Spam and content moderation — producing spam is automatable and near-zero-marginal-cost; filtering it requires continuously updated classifiers, human review, and infrastructure.
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