Why monetizing corrupts

Setting-aside arguments about economic necessity (which very seldom hold water*) it is surely a blazingly obvious fact that monetizing of blogs and videos, by whatever means, is corrupting. 

We can all see this for ourselves (especially if there is a before and after) - even when the scale of earnings is (presumably) negligible.

Indeed, this is what is striking; that even a small scale blog-video is distorted in predictable ways by monetization - in other words, monetization induces and enforces this-worldly short-termism in service to the mainstream agenda. 

The mechanism of corruption is analogous to that which leads to the "convergence" that afflicts all charities in the UK (and I mean All charities) - which is that engagement with The System (in this case the economy) is intrinsically corrupting. 

Which means, of course, that we are all (more or less) corrupted by the fact that we all depend on The System for our survival. 

That is true. But it is also true that every time we choose to increase our integration with The System, we increase our corruption. 

We can negate such spiritual harm if we explicitly acknowledge (to ourselves, in particular) that we have chosen to do what corrupted us because it seemed more expedient (i.e. if we take personal responsibility for our corrupting choice); and acknowledge too that we have actually become more corrupt as a result of our choices.

In other words; we are all sinners and cannot cease from sinning and indeed often choose to sin more and gratuitously.  

But what usually happens is that we lie to ourselves; first that we "have to" engage-with and subordinate-to The System in this particular instance; and that "it won't make any difference". 

With monetization - it takes the form of justifying that we "deserve" to be paid for the input of our time and effort...

OK; but that means we are selling our time and effort (even when we get very little back from that sale); and we cannot validly then claim that we are writing (or otherwise creating) in pursuit of truth, beauty and virtue.    

In sum: as of 2025 (with our national and global totalitarian system) - if you are writing for money then you are, to a significant degree, Writing For Money; writing so as to be more compatible with making money; hence you have chosen to place your writing and its content within the totalitarian system. 

One sign of corruption is when the writing engages with the monetization, another when the writing become PR for other system-affiliated activities: selling books or other merchandize, supporting your business; or promoting your-self, your career, your worldly-projects. 

All that's fine if you support the evil-motivated actuality and aims of the global totalitarian system. 

In that case you presumably want to become more corrupt, and selling your writing (or using your writing to sell) will help with this. 

But insofar as you desire to take the side of God, divine creation and the good; then the decision to monetize your writing is one that will surely have adverse consequences on you personally, relative to how you otherwise would have been - and more so insofar as you try to deny this.      

To put it the other way around; if you are genuinely serious in your motivation of wanting to align with the divine and enable good via your writing; then you should avoid (insofar as possible) inserting an economic interface between your writing and those who may read it. 

In conclusion; I think we have recently reached a point when the old possibility of valid compromises between this-world and the spirit, have broken-down. 

Things have come to a point. 

We must make choices - one way, or the other.

The choice whether or not to monetize one's writing is only one of these choices; but it is one of these choices.  

*If one is writing for money, in order to live; then it should be considered whether money may be got some other way - so as to liberate the writing. There are few less-efficient ways of making money than writing; so that a smaller amount of some other kind of work will nearly-always make money more reliably and efficiently than monetizing the writing. Also; most of the best writers in history have been "amateurs" who made money from some other work than writing; and their best writing was done without expectation of payment (even if that writing later made some, or a lot of, money).