I've been struggling to find new music by real humans these days, it requires a level of trust in listmakers and aggregators that I don't have and the ones I did trust appear to have slowed down or quit because they're also struggling in the same way that I am.
I think the vast majority of these men were raised to be ideologically aligned with this in the first place. Conservative plebians are never known to act in their own best interests, why expect rational actors at this point?
I think you'll find a high correlation with organized religion and conservative upbringing. The article mentions "fears of labor competition" but I think the fact that it goes back almost a century paints a very different picture about how deep rooted the culture can be.
Page 3 and 5, while it's unclear the terms of the investments that make up the majority of their assets they still have net assets over 300 Million Dollars and have even been prepaying services far in advance. Their lease liability and accrued expenses are only 500K each and they payed an extra 4.5M to Wikimedia voluntarily last year, it's expected that they could run the site somewhere between 50 to 100 years based on this.
In the post above it is ALREADY Negative BEFORE considering legal fees or loss of income due to IRS cuts.
The net is negative, the question is how many hundred billions.