I agree that we have too many people who add a lot of value to our society without getting much back, or easily become too burdened trying to manage something f

I agree that we have too many people who add a lot of value to our society without getting much back, or easily become too burdened trying to manage something for which they do not have enough resources, even if they are actually getting something. What you say does make some sense, but I don't think the problem is that people is unwilling to pay, but rather that you don't want to pay until you actually determine that something is useful (and this is actually positive, as you would remove a lot of junk from the world that only looks fancy for the first 5 minutes), but afterwards paying is often too burdensome (because you already have it for free, you have to go to the donation page, have to decide how much money to donate, etc (yeah, all this seems absurd, but it is adding friction to the process, and this happens for so many software tools that we use in our day to day, that we just decide to ignore it)). To me, it seems like it would be better to have a fairness system, where you put some money limit per month, you can see which free software tools are you using (or bands are listening, or many others) and which ones could use some money, usage of each element is automatically monitored, and every month you pay automatically. You could specify how much money you make and get automatic feedback based on whether you are giving too little or too much for your use of those resources. I've seen multiple companies that have tried to do this "fairness" thing... but the most popular one is still patreon and that's too much manual work. There are many hard problems with this proposal, mostly how do you do the communication/monitoring of the elements you want to donate for and this system, and how you determine if what software developers / artists / whatever are asking for is fair or not (this is the really big one), but it doesn't seem so far fetched. What we all really want is a fair distribution of the rewards for our efforts. We have to solve this at some point, and the obstacles are friction, the previously mentioned determination of "reasonable compensation", and consensus on the tool to solve these two (which should be funded through itself).