If most people quit spending money on Amazon then Amazon stops being worth running.

If most people stop discussing things on HN, and the discussion is indeed one of the major reasons it’s kept running, then HN stops being worth running.

Whats the point of a human coming to a site if all the threads and empty and its front page is a glorified RSS feed for lazy peoples AI agents?

Who cares what you want?

Most humans place the desires of human beings over the desires of companies.

Indeed. But that is a false equivalence - this is conflict of desires between small companies and creators and an AI-corp where the AI-corp wants to steal their content and give it to users with their shop branding.

> You’re not obliged to participate in discussion.

Are website owners obligated to serve content to AI agents and/or LLM scrapers?

It was a corollary example