> Performers like getting paid because they like to eat and not be homeless, and suggesting that most of them don't want to be paid is simply not true.
He suggested no such thing, you should try reading more carefully.
> Amateur porn is absolutely not the default, as even a cursory glance at porn sites reveals.
He also never claimed that.
What he did say was that there's enough amateur exhibitionists who would do it for free and don't care about getting paid to more than satisfy the demand for porn and that's why professionals are going to continue having a hard time being paid.
Yes, but if that calculus were true, tube sites (which display viewing figures) would be dominated by amateur content and they're not. The market demonstrates a clear preference for professionally produced material.
> Yes, but if that calculus were true, tube sites (which display viewing figures) would be dominated by amateur content and they're not.
That's not a logical conclusion, so no. The market demonstrates a clear preferences for free content, that's what tube sites show; that professional content is popular when free does not demonstrate that professional content matters more than free content. That professional are having such a hard time making money in fact demonstrates the opposite, the market cares more about free than about quality. As long as people are willing to make free porn, which they are, professionals will always struggle to make money. The same is true of much art, music is another example of exactly this phenomenon.
He suggested no such thing, you should try reading more carefully.
> Amateur porn is absolutely not the default, as even a cursory glance at porn sites reveals.
He also never claimed that.
What he did say was that there's enough amateur exhibitionists who would do it for free and don't care about getting paid to more than satisfy the demand for porn and that's why professionals are going to continue having a hard time being paid.