"The thing is, one way or another, stuff has to be paid for. Since this generation has decided not to pay for anything, least of all for factual information investigated by salaried journalists, advertising and sponsorship is all we have left."
I'm so glad you used journalism as an example:
The actual thing is - it's not our damn responsibility to pay the bills of organizations that took a decade or more to finally admit that newspapers are dead and they should probably have a solid online presence. The overwhelming majority of Top Tier papers and news rooms simply refused to do this, then decided to play scramble and just hop on the ad-based revenue bandwagon. Fuck 'em. If they die they die, and you can pin it on our generation all you want, we will proudly take that smoke.
It isn't our fault that we leverage technology to disrupt industries that refused to do so.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
