If you're small time Google won't pay out enough to make it your sole source of income so you'll probably seek out other ways of monetizing your videos (e.g. Patreon, merch). If you're large enough you're gonna seek out more stable source of income that won't threaten to demonetize you at the drop of a hat (e.g. Patreon, merch).

Me? I think it's immoral to run 30 minute ads hyping up hate churches and 15 minute ads hawking missile launchers.

e.g.

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/17lcv5e/...