@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] you still have to square the circle of making it viable to make content, though.
Yes, in an ideal world users would drop a penny in the jar when they read / view something that interested / entertained them, but given that they don't (or can't), you either have advertising, or art produced by only the independently wealthy or those lucky enough to have a rich patron.
TL:DR; advertising is often the only (shitty) answer to the problem of content producers eating.