All the good content.
I have been ruminating around paywalls and subscriptions over the past
month or so, since the beginning of the year. How all the "good" content
is always behind a subscription. Podcasts, newsletters, good journalism,
etc. All the members' exclusive content.
I do understand and
support people getting paid for their craft and I am all for that. My
issue is, well, money. I want to pay for all the website subscriptions,
I want to support all the good podcasts and all the good services.
Unfortunately, I can't afford it all, I do not have all the "disposable
income" I wish I'd have to afford to pay for all the good things I would
want to support.
At the beginning of the year, I did an
unsubscribe spree from many services and subscriptions and only kept a
few. This does not include app-related subs, but more like Patreon
content, websites, and podcasts, although, app subs also were cut.
I am going, to be honest, it was hard to let go of some of them,
especially exclusive members' content, like that one extra episode a
week or those two new kettlebell workouts a week. I am sure I will
resubscribe to some, like my kettlebell Patreon one, since I lack the
imagination to come up with workouts of my own 🙃.