Five Buck Fatigue
Perhaps I'm not reading this in the vein in which the author intended, so I'm open to being corrected.  But my read of this is that authors and other creators are in a no-win situation.  People don't like ads (so they block them or simply don't interact with them, either way driving down the money made from the ads), but people also don't like subscriptions, and people <i>definitely</i> don't like one-off "plonk your credit card here" request, yet no centralized micropayment system has really taken off because people also don't take to those.<p>So...what next?  How do creators get paid?<p>(FWIW, I am on the opposite end of this.  I probably devote too much of my income--not a brag, it's likely a financially unwise thing to do--on recurring subscriptions on Patreon and Maximum Fun and other platforms because I'm very quick to "ooh, shiny" and click-to-subscribe.)