Without ads, content quality would go up, because very few people will pay for low quality content. And if quality goes up, people are happy to pay for it. Wit

Without ads, content quality would go up, because very few people will pay for low quality content. And if quality goes up, people are happy to pay for it. With ads, content quality goes down. You don't need to convince people that your content is worth reading, you just need to convince Google. Slap a few expired domains on your text-spinner generated content and off you go. Not all content is created equal, and Made-For-Adsense content would not have been made otherwise and would not take away attention from quality content. I believe you're rationalizing your paycheck.