Comment by Forgeties79

I don’t know why you’re reducing our options to so few. There are so many ways for people to make a living creating beyond advertising. It’s not even a capitalism thing, this is such a narrow American mindset, especially the idea that everyone objecting to the current state of “advertising” (data fracking and selling) is just entitled.

Also a lot of people are very happy creating things without consistent/“making a living” (or any!) compensation, but they are often exploited by large corporations that want a free ride - or worse, use them as a building block and then find ways to wall them out as they take advantage of people who would otherwise use their tool. See: the FOSS community. Where would we be without VLC?

An example I always use is the Indie rock boom in Canada in the 2000’s, which bled into the US in a very concrete way . A lot of that was actually possible because of the Canadian government funding the arts.