This is waaaayyyy off topic (along with viagra and womens’ preferences 
) but without click income there would be almost nothing useful on the internet.
Most people don’t want to pay a single penny for anything. EuroGA is donation funded but that only works because the “admin” is unpaid. Even a single person’s salary would make it totally unviable and we would have to carry advertising, both visible and hidden (click income etc).
Aviation’s problem is in the types of people who participate in it, especially in business. The industry has deep structural problems, with chronic underfunding in most areas, driving a dog-eat-dog climate in which there is too little expertise to do a job properly.
The specific prebuy issues are a lot to do with a lack of literacy among buyers and sellers. Unfortunately there is not a lot of connection between being able to operate in the written world and having a few hundred k! And that is before you get onto actual dishonesty which exists in every field of human endeavour.
Peter wrote:
This is waaaayyyy off topic (along with viagra and womens’ preferences ) but without click income there would be almost nothing useful on the internet.
Actually, there would be – you just need to charge per GB of traffic consumed. :)
Which almost nobody would pay. Also hosting costs are (usually) barely related to data volume.
I need to create a viagra topic…
