Haha thanks, and my comments are not particularly directed at you or any singular person as much as they are directed at the issue, despite me making them in a reply to you 😂🫂 I’m not really thinking about my posts as much when I’m ranting about all this since I’m just making memes. Cool if someone zaps them, but they’re meant for fun, sometimes to make a point.

As for the topic at hand, the difference between products in a store and digital content is that products are physical and limited in supply, and content is infinitely reproducible once created. It’s a challenge for artists for sure. Nothing that I’m going to fix, but if I can be a squeaky wheel and draw attention to the issue then I’ll do that because I care about the issue. Paywalls are meh, and most people are okay with watching a few ads (paying with their attention) to avoid paying for content with money. Nostr, Bitcoin, and value-4-value are up against a lot of momentum in our culture. There are pros and cons, and artists don’t have to rely solely on one monetization model. They can use v4v, paywalls, etc, where each approach makes sense. My point is simply that content doesn’t create itself, whether it’s music, books, movies, etc. We can be stubborn and wait for someone to force us to pay for them with a paywall, or we can show them appreciation voluntarily when they don’t make us jump through those hoops.