Hmm… I don’t think it works this way: “If consumer wealth crashes — and both Business Week and The Economist offer cover stories this week saying it will — what happens to the content powering Web 2.0? Will people still have time to blog if they need to take a second job (or a first one) to keep making payments on their rapidly adjusting ARM? Will people still videocast their lives if those lives require full-time drudge work to keep the bank account balance positive? Will people still create new web sites like it’s 1999 when the stock market and their paychecks say it’s anything but? Plenty of people still have plenty of money to do work for free or almost free, and it would be impossible to shut down the human drive to express one’s self and connect with other people doing the same. But if consumer affluence crashes, it may not be long before Internet idealists turn into Internet realists and start saying pay me for my content or else I can’t afford to create it.”