Not disagreeing with anything you said, just decorating: for myself, I think paying for Premium or watching ads is a perfectly valid set of choices, with all th

Not disagreeing with anything you said, just decorating: for myself, I think paying for Premium or watching ads is a perfectly valid set of choices, with all the other things you have clearly delineated removed from the equation. Had people been offered the pay option from the get go, arguably some of the nastier expressions of Bridge Troll Capitalism might never have come to fruition. To deliver content that requires bandwidth beyond dialup, it's gonna take some resources; one way or another, those resources must be paid for, and children aside, I am not aware of many people who actually think they deserve anything completely gratis; at this point we all need to be on the same page that it must be paid for, one way or another. If we could get absolutely everyone to agree to that proposition and use that as the starting point for further discussion, I'm pretty sure we could come up with a lot of creative ways to make that happen without literally going full 1984. Really does feel like I'm living out the Tower Of Babel parable in real life some days.