Thing is masses of people make high quality content for free on all these platforms (and elsewhere) it's just next to no one gets to see it. Massive centralizat

Thing is masses of people make high quality content for free on all these platforms (and elsewhere) it's just next to no one gets to see it. Massive centralization happened because discovery of content is easier for the audience. But discovery of specific content has not gotten any better, if anything in a world curated by algorithm with much greater participation it's got significantly worse. The main issue is both monetization and distribution/discovery for digital content follow a power law. If you want to make something and have an audience you need to be one of the vanishingly small number of people that "make it". Otherwise you're just facing a massive uphill climb against entrenched people who hold all the cards. Right now if you want a good chance to get into a space you either need to have big resources behind you or to be one of the first movers into it. If you're some random person even if you make great stuff you stand next to no chance of blowing up because the entire audience is hovered up by the big names. This leads to people burning out en masse and their content being even harder to find. Basically we need more equitable discovery of quality content rather than just chasing metrics which leads to this entrenchment. And stable career paths for people.