To be honest I pay for premium as well, not because of any moral thing, but just because there were ads in tv/mobile and I could not setup adblock easily enough (it was cheaper for my time to actually pay).

But yeah, finding a way to pay creators would be good. I’m from Argentina, and USD are way too pricey, so most patron contribution pages I find are out of my budget. The youtube premium subscription is the equivalent of 1.45USD here, if I could pay double that to “all creators that I see” automatically, I’d do it in a heartbeat, but paying 1usd to each of the hundreds of youtubers I might see a video from once in a while would be crazy.

I just don’t think content should be behind a paywall. I want to live in a socialist utopia where content and knowledge is free to share, copyright is a relic of the past, and art and science blossom. Blocking ads takes me 0.0001% closer to that, so I’ll take it. I don’t want to pay, because I don’t want money to exist, it’s deeper than experience vs how much it is worth.

If I could download a car I would.