N=250. As I suspect, the idea of people paying for "community" is highly suspect. People pay for content.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/833067121626091520 …
the main paid community I can think of is something awful, which is very shameful and low status I think
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do things like AA and Weight Watchers count? I think ostensible purposes there are not ceremonial enough for true community
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hmm good question - those both have non-community "purposes" and AA barely charges anything (a dollar per meeting, goes toward books)
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like paying for friends (fraternities/sororities/religious institutions have to carefully obscure this aspect)
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(like with golf course memberships, ostensibly you're paying to play golf?)
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