> Why does everybody want everything to be free? That's a more interesting question. > Is it because years of free broadcast television and radio conditioned u

> Why does everybody want everything to be free? That's a more interesting question. > Is it because years of free broadcast television and radio conditioned us to expect everything to be ad-supported and "free?" > Is it because everything was sort of "free by default" in the early days of the internet because we hadn't worked out payment systems and such? Well, we were sold the dream: https://www.wired.com/2008/02/ff-free/ https://www.wired.com/2008/02/ff-free/ > But blaming the current miasma on "advertisers" is so short-sighted. It's tangential but it's not short-sighted. There are generations being introduced to the web through Tik-tok, FB, etc., that don't know it could be/was different. A lot of money into making sure they stay in the garden.