One of the problems with putting important information behind a paywall is that it creates an informational divide between the Haves and Have Nots. This deepens class friction and helps both further leave behind the lower classes and also potentially foment bloody revolution because they aren't getting the memo about important discoveries because they literally can't afford the memo, so it worsens the differences between the mental models of the upper and lower classes. This goes really bad places.

I don't know what the solution is, but I generally agree with the sentiment, even though as a writer I'm caught in the crossfire here and can't pay my bills because ads are basically dead (and morally/logistically problematic in certain problem spaces) and trying to support writing via other avenues is challenging at best. Most writing pays rather poorly. For every JK Rowling or Stephen King there's an army of underpaid nobodies barely scraping by.

But I'm not willing to paywall my blogs. It wouldn't accomplish anything good to deny access to poor people who can't afford to pay.

We genuinely need to find ways to fund good writing and pay for the costs involved in disseminating information. Local papers are going out of business left and right and it's a real problem.

But it's also a very real problem to create a system where only the people who already have money are allowed to know our latest, greatest hits of information. Among other things, it also means new ideas cannot be effectively challenged by people from diverse backgrounds, which weakens the information ecosystem.