The cost of producing immaterial labor is not just shaping how audiences think, but also the creators themselves. When we’re constantly told that real art must come from struggle, that wanting to be paid somehow taints our work, it trains us to feel guilt for wanting the basic means to survive. This loop of self-exploitation is exactly what

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The real issue is not that writers are greedy or that readers are cheap, but that we’re all trapped in a system where cultural production has been so devalued that $5/month feels simultaneously like an insultingly small amount to pay someone for their labor and completely unsustainable when you’re already being asked to subscribe to twenty other

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