most likely his real reason for this is that he's being paid by the CIA or something and like a heap of other devs in the scene don't think of self-sustaining models of funding as being "desirable" since they further decrease the potential for cooption of the system

this is how the advertising model of revenue on the internet led to manipulative, politically motivated skinners boxes - this is how they make it into propaganda

when it's business, they lose control of it

you wouldn't believe how much of the VC scene is full of people being loaded up with black budget profits to promote things that help their handlers