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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why would anyone provide content for free? Everyone needs to be paid for their work.

[–] Blizzard 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It doesn't necessarily have to be 'work', people used to make websites out of passion. Now everyone wants to monetize everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It is always work even if it’s a passion project.

People used to make shitty websites with good content but now they need to make good, professional looking websites for people to even look at them to decide on the whether the content was good.

This takes time and if you’re doing it for free then you’re choosing to do extra work on top of your day job.

As others have said, there are costs to hosting a website other than the time that you’re expecting people to give for free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I feel like this is a dialectic that has been endorsed by the ruling class when talking about menial jobs. 'Now nobody wants to work' and whatnot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This is one of the reasons I left Reddit. Sure everyone needs to be paid for their work but it gets a little more suspect when I donate my time and attention, and it is monetized, and I still have to deal with too many ads

And someone who does NOT deserve to be paid is the “journalist” who writes those articles “LoveBunny68 on social media site Reddit said ….”. I guess I hope that is some sort of automation because no one deserves to be paid for that and I imagine an actual writer ready to commit suicide if stuck writing those