> If you have two customers and you need a thousand customers to cover your fixe...

> If you have two customers and you need a thousand customers to cover your fixed costs, you're out of business before this has time to be effective.

You don't have a right to stay in business if the net effect of ccreating the conditions for you to do so is socially harmful.

Rapid hyper-growth of the sort preferred by VCs might not be so common in a world which banned advertising. I don't see that as an issue.