I can't say you don't have a good point. When you monetize content it takes the debate right out of it. When you go on a non monetized blog site it is just flourishing with people blogging and interacting, here it's like sending emails back and forth it's so dead because there's minimal room here for open debate, that turns a
lot of people off. I also agree one is looking at a good twenty years down the road to become profitable at this, or see a significant return on their time invested. Most businesses would go out of business if it took that long , I often joke I may have time to make enough for funeral expenses....but if I was younger and pecked away at it over the years it would be different, otherwise one would have to invest their own money to see a faster return. Maybe back in the start up days of Sam Walmart a percentage of a penny for hours of work sounded good but not so much in this day and age for the normal run of the mill individual.