Libraries give money to authors, that's my point.

We have unions for a reason. They may be a pain sometimes, but the reason they exist is so that the lower end does not get abused. Now we have Uber and Deliveroo and Amazon who wilfully abuse their employees.

"The fundamental belief of capitalism is the free market. You are arguing against the free market."

We don't have a free market, and even if we did free content does not count as part of the market. The nearest are so called "loss leaders".

"Having fixed renumeration for work that everyone abides by like you are arguing for is generally a very marxist belief. "

So they say. In practice Marxists have used substantial slave labour.

"Were you mislead in your decision to contribute to Wikipedia? Wikipedia doesn't pretend to pay contributors."

I was misled about the nature of the project, how it was run and regret being persuaded into using a named account. I was far too optimistic about what it was and what it was for.