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The Internet is Broken

• plg 9y ago
  “Ad-driven systems can only reward attention,” Mr. Williams says. “They can’t reward the right answer. Consumer-paid systems can. They can reward value. The inevitable solution: People will have to pay for quality content.” I for one am willing to do this, and I do already (NYT, The Economist). The question is, how many other people will voluntarily pay to receive content they don't always agree with? Maybe we'll end up with a system in which only wealthy people can receive factual, balanced news? (Silicon Valley types: by "wealthy" I mean top 50% not top 0.1%) Sort of like we have a system now in which, by design or by consequence, it's more difficult, logistically, and in terms of price, for poor people to eat healthy compared to wealthy people.