Pay per article and dynamic pricing at that. This way important articles may be read by all. This model will also generate distribution influencers. For example I will pay and read an article referred by Paul Graham.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1219911533070897153 …
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Only drawback would be that publishers rather than the market forces would decide the price, may lead to certain articles never reaching that threshold.
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If it's pay per article, won't it be 'difficult' for newspapers to justify keeping those journalists/reporters on payroll whose articles are not bringing in *good* revenue? On the other hand, won't it also lead to more click-bait headlines to 'attract' ?
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Yes. However that problem can be circumvented if news websites become financially viable. They can fund important articles and mark them as free.
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I feel tempted to try building that just to see whether the UX is palatable. (And even more tempted to suggest
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this is what
@UnlockProtocol is building
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Ideas around assurance contracts (and
@ATabarrok's dominant assurance contracts) still seem very under-used, to put it mildly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract … (Having institutions reliably able to solve collective action problems seems like... I dunno, the invention of agriculture.) -
Blockchain space is working on these coordination problems using DAOs.https://twitter.com/licuende/status/1219958783218212864?s=19 …
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I never understood why no one did something like
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Medium is doing this now, basically
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This is the story of the Czech metronome, an art display seen from Prague built after the URSS fell. Its maintained by public donation, so if people stop paying it stops moving. "The Czech people must set their own pace"
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