On the contrary - this is exactly how and why humanity built a technological civilization in the first place. Note that I didn't say
> because you want something, you derive value from what you want, and yet you do not care about giving something back to who makes it.
Yes, because it would be backward and limiting to do that. Note: I never said I don't want to give anything back - I said I don't personally care specifically about the author/publisher. I don't want to establish any relationship with them. If I'm paying them directly for something, I'm paying them for that thing - not also for relationship (which really is a sales channel), not also for being advertised to. If I'm paying some intermediary, then rewarding the maker is the intermediary's problem, not mine.
Consider: do you compensate directly, and have an active relationship with, the person who bakes your bread (hint: people selling bread in bakeries are not actual bakers)? The company who supplied them with flour? The farmers who supplied the flour-makers with grain? Do you pay delivery drivers directly? After all, you're deriving value from their labor directly. Etc. Then there's an entire army of people whose work benefits you directly, and whom you don't even think much about, and rely on being compensated from the common pool (e.g. taxes) or stochastically.
The whole point of money is to allow exchanging value without forcing parties into maintaining an ongoing relationship. That's a feature, not a bug. And if anything is driving humanity down the drain, it's the idea that you should, need, or are even entitled to capture all the value you produce.