I was close to it. I’m an advocate for paying for services I use.
Agreed.
We’re way too used to getting everything for free and we should be willing to pay for services we appreciate.
I’d argue that this is partly due to the continued decrease in real wealth experienced by a large amount of the population. Companies want to keep making more profits when people have less relative wealth. So, the data harvesting is making up for that, making it just that much worse for the lot of us.