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It's honestly insane and kinda selfish and self-defeating to say that the response to a bad situation is to just take your business elsewhere.
Like...we can't just write off everyone else's misery and suffering because you personally found a way to avoid it.
That is literally 99% of the world's problems and thank you for providing a brilliant example at the lowest moral stakes possible.
The degree of privilege required to even entertain making a living as a YouTube starlet is astronomical.
And, again, free video hosting and distribution! That's why 99% of people put videos in YouTube. You can host something and pass it around without needing a self-hosted solution to manage it.
That's the business model. It's not Netflix
In the beginning, YT was more like what you describe. It’s not anymore.
Where you are wrong is that it is Netflix now.
YT sees themselves as a competitor to Netflix. They have said this publicly. And Netflix is trying to compete with YT. They are actively managing it like Netflix without paying anyone for the “shows” that gets added to their streaming service.