Top post right here. It's a shame that the very concept of a social contract has fallen so much out of favour in our individualistic and aggressively capitalist society.
The truth is everyone who has a business or "creates content" or does any economic activity owes it (to themselves, but also) to the society they are inserted in: be it material stuff like roads to carry your products and an affluent and secure population to buy it, or immaterial stuff like, oh I don't know, the collective achievement of Humanity so far on whose shoulders we all stand.
> Presumably the content creators are paying taxes just like the rest of us
Correct. This content creator has also been a software engineer for 20 years. Paid a lot of taxes. Not sure why I'm supposed to owe anything to anyone.
"Yeah, the roads we built with your machines, you have to pay us that we use them so that our work got easier by your invention, because, we educated you!!" (says the slave owner)
The truth is everyone who has a business or "creates content" or does any economic activity owes it (to themselves, but also) to the society they are inserted in: be it material stuff like roads to carry your products and an affluent and secure population to buy it, or immaterial stuff like, oh I don't know, the collective achievement of Humanity so far on whose shoulders we all stand.