Yglesias » You’ve Got Ripped Off! AOL’s Scam Economics

Yglesias » You’ve Got Ripped Off! AOL’s Scam Economics: "The economics of scams continues to be, in my opinion, an underexplored subject. Here Nicholason Carlson from Business Insider extracts the fact that AOL’s business at this point is mostly dependent on a pretty crude ripoff—selling internet access to old people who already have internet access:"

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