We already have plenty of opportunities to fund creators directly. Lots of podcasts, for example, have subscriptions, but I doubt one person in ten thousand pays as much for all the media they consume as they would have to if there were no advertising.
And, in a very real way, advertising benefits some of us. It's basically a transfer payment from those who buy the things advertised to those who do not. The less you buy, the more it benefits you.
