Surely you must understand that if everyone took that view and ran Adblock on YouTube that eventually the site would be shut down and all of that content would

Surely you must understand that if everyone took that view and ran Adblock on YouTube that eventually the site would be shut down and all of that content would be lost. I just don’t get it. The casual “theft” here that’s socially tolerated (like say the theft of product from retail stores that’s so common now) just seems wild to me. Why shouldn’t creators be compensated for their work?