Not to mention the psychology study that showed kids paid to draw were less likely to draw spontaneously.

“Supplementing” an intrinsic motivation with extrinsic reward destroys the intrinsic motivation.

Of course the knobs that run reddit probably don’t understand what intrinsic motivation is or how anyone could make choices based on anything other getting paid to do something.

It’s an absolutely terrible idea for a thriving community of creators working for free, to start paying them. Like the science says “this kills the platform”.