What this ignores is that Netflix, Amazon Prime and Spotify all deal with copyright protected works. Copyright holders can and do demand an income related not to the amount of work it took to produce any protected piece, but to its popularity.

Subscription services made it easier for consumer to have predictable copyright costs that don't depend on how many movies they felt like watching on any given month, and release the worry of actually enjoying something they paid for.

Wikipedia, Archive.org, Librivox, Project Gutenberg and your favorite Linux distribution are all wonderful projects, but they don't play in the same ballpark at all. We should (and most of us can) support them on top of the mentioned convenience, not instead of.