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Oh yeah, no disagreement there; the source of all these problems is ultimately an economic system designed by and for sociopaths. But, be that as it may, the fact that even the people who could afford to pay for services simply don't, and many run adblockers too and rarely turn them off for eg. news sites even if the ads they run aren't extremely distracting. For example when ABP introduced a whitelist for "non-annoying" ads, it didn't exactly go down well and people said they had "sold out."
Big corporations can get fucked for all I care, but as I said, the ones not working for them and running services or news media or whatever also need to eat, and peoples' reticience to pay for things in one way or another has directly led to those big companies taking over more and more of the field and WEI is an outgrowth of that.