[armitron]

The "passion economy" is flooding the Internet with low SNR material and making it harder and harder to get to high quality information.

Creators create not to meet some sort of quota or "monetize" but because they need to create. It's the same for artists. True art exists because it has to come out no matter what. Monetization doesn't come into it at all. This is an important point that the passion economy vultures don't seem to grasp. What we see today is monetization becoming THE purpose and overriding everything else.

[TheOtherHobbes]

Monetisation is a cult in its own right.

The idea that everything has to be about the hustle is toxic and entirely insane.