also of course this problem is *even worse* with academic papers where it's 'pay $60 for three days access to a single paper' and you just steal your buddy's jstor login anyway
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer @zeynep
I subscribe to pretty much all the major papers and magazines save the NYT, but I still quite often want to read something in a local newspaper or smaller magazine
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I know right? Five years ago, I was puzzled how it didn't already exist.https://medium.com/message/spotify-but-for-the-titanic-a-proposal-for-the-future-of-news-and-publishing-40c41fbebe7b …
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Replying to @zeynep @BeijingPalmer
The pathologies at how this problem was addressed in the music business are worth looking at. The fundamental problem (as Clay Shirky pointed out I think in 2000 or so) is cognitive—people don't want to keep track of all this stuff, they just want payment to go to the right place
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I think calling it "cognitive" is unfairly dismissive, and that dismissiveness is more fundamental to the problem than it is a "cognitive" problem. Managing millions of micropayments is fundamentally complicated. It could be made superficially simple, but that takes lots of work.
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I disagree. We already have a de facto micropayment system deployed! Because of surveillance and ad-driven data bloat, in the US it costs a few pennies' worth of data plan to view any news article on a cell phone. But the money is captured by the ISP, not given to the publisher.
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That's not simple either, as some guy pointed out. https://idlewords.com/images/adtech.jpg … Imagining that you can steer an iceberg lik that so easily... that's the cognitive problem.
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Saying "this putative technology problem is really a human attention problem" is the schtick of everyone in this thread. Don't mess with us!
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we should form a very nerdy gang
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underwhelming arm punches all around
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Long arguments over how to split a tip jar that, on examination, turns out to be empty
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