Promoting one's own paid website, book, or service on a podcast is not shameful but ordinary commerce—everyone is selling something (reputation, brand, products)—and hostility to it (as seen in reactions to Art De Vany charging for his site) reflects a growing sense of entitlement bred by the abundance of free content.

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Speaker

Russ Roberts

Evidence Quote

we call capitalism it's nothing shameful about it if you don't like it don't go to a site don't pay for it

Source

Mike Munger on Love, Money, Profits, and Non-profits 04/19/2010EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:31:45 AM

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