> If you stop watching videos, there will be no reason to make the videos.
I feel for you, but as someone who made online video content before monetization became a real thing - I'm not sure that's true. The issue is our culture forces people to focus on creating for money instead of creating for the simple pleasure itself.
No. Money is what enables ordinary people to produce creative output and feed themselves while not depending on others. We're living in the first time in human history where producing cultural output is now available to most people, rather than a privilege of a minority sponsored by patrons at a royal court or privileged heirs. This is because, not despite the fact, that culture is now a business.
No, it's a means and not an end at all. The goal is to produce the best work you can do, but the fact that working people can turn it into a sustainable business greatly expands who can participate.
Someone with a Youtube channel with say 200k subscribers today can make about 2k-4k per month. At the inconvenience of a bunch of ads or sponsors people who could have never done creative work can do it full time now and actually be rewarded for their work.
> No. Money is what enables ordinary people to produce creative output and feed themselves while not depending on others.
Money is the embodiment of being dependent on others. You can't eat money. Money has no use except to exchange for something else.
> We're living in the first time in human history where producing cultural output is now available to most people, rather than a privilege of a minority sponsored by patrons at a royal court or privileged heirs.
There was some "high art" that wan't available to everyone but saying the majority of cultural output was. Sharing it was just not as efficient as it is today.
> This is because, not despite the fact, that culture is now a business.
No, it's because copying digital content costs nothing.
Also because farming has become efficient enough that we don't actually need everyone to work full time to survive. Not even close to. But we are still stuck in an economic model that is based on trading scarce resources.
I feel for you, but as someone who made online video content before monetization became a real thing - I'm not sure that's true. The issue is our culture forces people to focus on creating for money instead of creating for the simple pleasure itself.
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