[vouaobrasil]

Yes, because it would be backward and limiting to do that. Note: I never said I don't want to give anything back - I said I don't personally care specifically about the author/publisher. I don't want to establish any relationship with them. If I'm paying them directly for something, I'm paying them for that thing - not also for relationship (which really is a sales channel), not also for being advertised to. If I'm paying some intermediary, then rewarding the maker is the intermediary's problem, not mine.

And I maintain that your attitude is one that makes the world worse. We should know where things come from and not have an anonymous transactional attitude towards it. Our technological civilization as you call it has led us to destruction with only a minority benefitting.

BTW, my favourite place to get bread is one in which they actually sell and bake it in store (a tiny market with its own oven).