Saw a post from someone on facebook saying ‘I love this’ and linking to an article about a 100 year old man raising money for the NHS by doing 100 laps of his garden with his zimmer frame. Why the fuck are we making centenarians perform physical labour to raise money for an essential public service that’s been stripped of funds by millionaires trying to sell it off to their pals. Why would anyone ‘love this’. Am I in a different fucking dimension from everyone else

The debate on the information markets tends to split on the "it wants to be free" vs. "authors need to be paid" divide. That's misleading and confining.

There's content produced because some audiences (readers, viewers, listeners, etc.) will want to access it, for information, entertainment, distraction, or some mix of the above.

There's content produced because the author wants others to experience it: propaganda, indoctrination, advertising, disinformation.