I understand to a degree, but part of me sees that thinking as the cardinal sin of the internet. Things on the internet that cost money to run should never start off being free, it's just far too hard to make everyone pay for them later.

If everyone needs to pay for them one day then it should be like that from day one. I want myself and everyone else on a network like this to be forced to pay, even just a little, for reassurance that we're all not, in some way that will only be clear later, the product.