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No mention of ads, which supported the periodicals mentioned. Direct payments from the audience bypass advertisers who object to your audience and content. >Whatever their failings, the best of the organisations and companies that kept the show going – from publishers, through record labels, to old-fashioned TV channels – worked on the basis that the mainstream success of their biggest attractions would help subsidise less bankable talent, and also allow adventurous, driven people to take chances. Hard disagree, but at least artists have the choice to disintermediate now. That's not dystopian, because the system of modern patronage from nobility isn't being razed but competed with by the tips the author already acknowledged.