That's not my point. My point is that content has evolved steadily into becoming something that a great deal of the population actually feels bad about consumi

That's not my point. My point is that content has evolved steadily into becoming something that a great deal of the population actually feels bad about consuming. They feel bad about losing hours on Youtube clicking video after video, but they can't stop because their brains have been hijacked by the fine interplay between algorithm and content creator driving this madness. Nobody would pay for this content if they had to. They don't event _want_ to watch it really. If content platforms were forced to have a subscriber model. People would only pay for what they actually _want_ access to.