That may be correct, but as I stated at the very top, if I’m a small time creator, say < $100/mo, I would have to invest a lot of time to get people to pay me for my content. People might pay for my content to Joe the Upload King.
David’s idea may address that, but for small authors one of main problems seems to be economies of scale for getting people hear about you. It’s like when you search for a “rare” torrent. Maybe there are sites that focus on “rare” torrents, but you will probably go to the largest site anyway. If it’s findable and any good, it’ll be on the largest torrent site.
I realize there are limits of what the platform can do for small timers, at least until such time we get search engines, reputation, etc.