Keep in mind that "fair use" is a defense, not a right. It's fairly narrowly construed. You have to be sued before it can be argued. Just a data point.

And you make a few pennies here, but publication owners make none. Sure, most of the so-called "editors" on this site are unqualified to be writers OR editors, but they are all volunteers and most are trying their best.

As for your comments about older people, exactly who do you think invented the internet in the first place? Millennials?