I believe crowdfunding is a better solution for a couple reasons.ġ. Because it seems to tend to lead to optimizing for advertising at the expense of quality. Yes, but I believe advertising is a poor solution for that. > And since people need money to live, the people making that stuff need money. That's not something you can realistically do, part-time, for free, while earning a living doing something else as your day job.Įxpecting everything to be free, and also ad-free, because it was created by some hobbyist in their spare time while they do something else for a living severely restricts the amount of people who can create and the types of things that can be created. And since people need money to live, the people making that stuff need money.įor example, imagine the sorts of investigative journalism where somebody might spend months or years researching a story. There is a lot of stuff that just doesn't happen unless somebody is working on it full-time. Not all art or journalism can be created that way. Spent a lot of years creating it myself.īut let's not be naive.

And even now that independently-made, non-ad-supported content is what I prefer most. Was generally better quality than the corporate People made content because they wanted to, and it

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