[tarkin2]

I believe that I would be happy to recompense someone for their efforts since, providing I enjoy the music, I happily give money to buskers.

Yet getting my credit card out for a stranger everytime I half-enjoy an article is not something I'm going to do.

Unless the answer is payment friction, assumed wealth or assumed effort, I can't seem to reconcile why I'm happy to recompense buskers but unwilling to recompense bloggers whose article I'll enjoy once and whose website I'll likely never visit again.

In an internet of initially-convincing yet insubstantial AI-slop, people hawking every fad going, and knowing your hard-work will be fed into a AI model that you'll later be charged for, I can't help but feel there must be a solution.