Most of the interesting channels I follow seem to rely on sponsorship, donations or merchandising. For specialized subjects, the youtube algorithm doesn’t acknowledge the value of the audience in terms of advertising (ex: tool brand for car channel).

I believe @Dojan was referencing the Puritans, not the founding fathers.

No, they are the system, and the system is held together by the law.

technology is still advancing

Actually not really: performance per watt of the high end stuff has been stagnating since Ampere generation. NVidia hides it by changing models in its benchmarks or advertising raw performance without power figures.

We had police just following orders during WWII in France. This is not a proud moment of our history, we pardon but we do not forgive.