Which is exactly what we do when we buy movie tickets, etc. And those who aren't interested don't have to pay for it. I'm not sure what your point is?

We all – not just those who go to the movies, but everyone – also pay a hidden cost: The cost of the copyright system itself. You imply that this cost is necessary for “high-scale, ambitious entertainment”, but I say that you should then be held to pay for it, instead of society as a whole.

It may or may not be true that “high-scale, ambitious entertainment” is unsupportable without copyright. If it turns out to be not supportable, it would be like the pyramids: Large, impressive, and expensive things which the structure of our society and our economy can no longer support the constructions of. I.e. the society we live in could concievably be re-organized to again support the construction of pyramids, but we choose not to do that, in order to have a modern society and economy instead.