I suppose, but given the balance between 'something to protect' and 'vulnerability' the fact that people don't walk around in obviously dangerous places with their guns out might show why not doing so in a more safe place doesn't occur. To answer your question more directly though, because there's nothing unsafe about people at my front door, and that's also why the restaurant down the street lets people walk in without question. Wouldn't want to live where conditions are otherwise, sympathetic to those who do.

Same reason every street vendorTimes Square doesn't point a gun at everyone walking past?

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Really good writeup, thank you.

Counterpoints:

- numbers are skewed by adblockers (many users aren't choosing ads, they are choosing not to pay)
- choosing ads is a preference, not inherently bad if the system is sound, particularly, IMO, when referral rather than datamining)
- numbers are skewed by bots (1000 bot guy isn't programming them to zap)
- people who choose $0 in V4V aren't 'freeloaders' and implying that they are not only undermines the concept of V4V but turns off people who might have $12 in their account and want to listen to their favorite millionaire's music
- the lenses that the modern consumer views V4V through do not adequately represent the perspective of the consumer in a free market of choice. Status quo is an entitled environment of scarcity where most have real consequences to $20 decisions.

In my opinion the viable model is voluntarily choosing to allow passive micropayments to lists of supported artists on a user selected timescale per budget, and beautiful insights presentations that allow them to budget it wisely, adjust it, or shut it off when finances require, along with artists who incentivize not just $$$$$ contributors but fans who can provide value in other ways, creatively.

Side by side graphics are the logical conclusion of watching current events and wanting to change minds effectively in little time.

Some evil characters begin a campaign of reality bending in which they are instructed to manipulate scenarios and conditions into fictional constructs that confuse and gaslight the good. The findings of Milgrim, social engineering, brigading, and bandwagon effect are leveraged to subvert sanity by groups whose lock-step agreement in falsity attempts to redirect common sense and individual conscience.

“Why are all these around me modeling self-destructive behavior and pretending it is normal and human when it so clearly isn’t? Why should I compelled to join?”

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Consider Hivetalk + OBS / Streamyard / restream.io perhaps

Makin wakes
Bakes, lakes
Whatever it takes
Among lies, fakes
Cheaters, and snakes

It doesn't last
Two paths
New maths
In the past

Their temptation
For reconciliation
Through humiliation
Is self satiation
Short term gratification

You who renew do you boo
They say u pay, u cray
You knew who you do choose
Playaway. Stay.

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