… but, but, but I want FREE stuff!1!! Waaaaaa…
Then the same people who don’t understand that ads generate revenue are also the same people who in antiwork communities demand that workers get $15/hr.
Now of course there is a limit to this madness. The number of ads YT is playing if you don’t have a Premium account is obnoxious.
The problem isn’t that, the people understand this concept. The problem is the average person has less and less wealth every day while people at the top get richer and richer
If everything else wasn’t this costly, I’d have no problem forking over some money for youtube or creators I really appreciate
“Well, watch the ads, then”
Time is also a resource and more and more people are fighting for people’s time and attention. Regular social media is built around the concept of keeping us glued to our screens to sell our time looking at it to their advertisers
If time is also a resource people want me to fork over to them, I will fight to keep my time protected by using it on things I want instead of on ads (also, watching ads might get me to make impulsive purchases, which threaten my financial resources anyway, so double the reason to block them)
I don’t have an abundance of time and money to give away just because companies want to extract even more of it from us
