"It's totally not. People essentially enjoy creating and sharing, and love putting up quality content about things they truly give a shit about." As someone wh

"It's totally not. People essentially enjoy creating and sharing, and love putting up quality content about things they truly give a shit about." As someone who participated in, and helped build, this early vision of the Internet, I am very, very sympathetic to (and enthusiastic about) your statement and vision. However, you can't look at something amazing like this: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/26/us/turkey-protesters-attack-video-analysis.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/26/us/turkey-pro... ... and think that this, or some useful version of this, would come out of the amateur, self-published, enthusiast ether. I am floored by what they've done here and how they have used static text and interactivity and video motion to present a story. This is amazing work and someone has to pay the bills for this. I don't know how that happens but I know it's not happening for free.