It’s also pretty evident that we could not sustain the current population on preindustrial farming let alone hunter gathering.

Where do they do it otherwise? In Australia it’s also yearly.

People might also get bonus so in some sense you get paid once a year.

It actually completely allows it as it is AGPL. The only condition is that you need to release the source code to any users of the service.

In practice it’s hard to keep advertising working while allowing third party applications.