I was recently talking with my girlfriend about print media, and she brought up a point I have been unable to shake from my head: because we get all of our info

I was recently talking with my girlfriend about print media, and she brought up a point I have been unable to shake from my head: because we get all of our information digitally, we don't value it as much as a physical medium that we pay for. Instead, there is just so much free information at the click of a button (and even paywall stuff can be bypassed if you put in the extra 5 seconds), that consuming information comes to feel like a chore. It reminds me of the famous scene in Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer", when Tom convinces a group of kids to paint the very fence he was contracted to paint. Instead of offering money for their services, he pitched the activity as a fun privilege to enjoy. There's a lot of good stuff on Medium. There's also a lot of crap. And there is no way to seamlessly progress from article to article without encountering any crap at all. Are the comments going to be informative, or an argumentative flame war? Roll the dice and see how much time of your life was well-spent or wasted. I got the daily newsletter from Medium for years. Read it fairly often. Then I just got sick of it and unsubscribed. With the exception of links from HN, I haven't gone back since.