You are assuming that customers can get the images they want elsewhere. Well maybe they can maybe they can't but if they can't then they would have to stump up. As for staff, well, photographers aren't in the business of providing images to keep people in a job whilst buying equipment and receiving next to nothing in return. Put it another way, if suppliers stop supplying because it's not profitable, how long will those same staff have jobs. Right now Alamy and customers are laughing all the way to the bank. All contributors are asking for is a fair crack of the whip, which at a few cents, they're not getting.