[paulhauggis]

"How about finding ways to compensate those who already produce valuable content in the commons, so they can have more time to do what they already do well?"

The tech community has seen to it that this doesn't happen with: file sharing of copyrighted material and adblock.

You can't first destroy entire industries in the name of 'freedom of speech' and then cry about how you can't make money in those industries any longer.

Content is now cheap and it's only getting worse. Which means content providers will be forced to take on jobs that they don't actually want to do (or are necessarily good at) to survive.

[sandal]

My own interpretation of this is that since the commercial sponsorship and advertising supported model is a race to the bottom, we need to be looking at alternative models that are focused on social benefit first.

We do have Wikipedia. It would be nice if there were hundreds of such examples out there.