This is part of a response by one of the admins of the group I was targeting yesterday, that runs a magazine for artists, charges money for the magazine, and pays the staff, but doesn't pay the artists.

In their reply, which is trying to convince people that 'ad space' is 'monetary value' and equates to paying artists (in money they still can't use to buy food), they had this dig at me for using their Facebook group in a way they encouraged.

https://mastodon.social/media/BBrqQZz1t_W-McQx5hE

@WelshPixie If they're so confident in the value of these adverts they're giving away, why don't they just pay the artists, charge for the advertising, and let the artists decide whether that's how they want to spend their earnings. Their unwillingness to offer this choice suggests they don't trust that they'd be able to charge what they needed to maintain their current profits, and if not, what does that say about the actual value of the adverts?