Information is basically free to copy now. The publisher model is dying anyway. Subscribing for first access is a good model. Value adds are mandatory now.
Help services must deliver results. Only monopolies like the AMA charge inflated prices by corrupt deals with the government. Lawyers in most English speaking countries have monopoly restricted licencing to keep supply down and price up. Australia is one of the most full on countries with licences. They also deliberately limit workers access to the labor market for the same reason.
This is why I left. I was a black sheep and when they restrict who can work, with licences, taxes and with ubi to maintain a permanent underclass, whole generations, multiple generations get trapped in the welfare system.
So I haxed the tax system to get myself out of the country and when I needed a job, it was easy. 10 applications, 2 weeks. Job.
In Australia, 1000s of applications. A decade of trying. Nothing.
Anyhow, charities depend on donations and generally if the help is good, it's cheap. The Vipassana centers, for example. The intro course is free, and the monastic atmosphere was very conducive.
In our world, the good are mostly poor because evil connives, tricks, robs and kills, and then make you pay an arm and a leg, and most of those expensive things are cults.
