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Regardless of its status on HN, I should consider subscribing. It looks like it's about $400/year for a digital subscription. A little over a dollar a day is ve
by grzm 9y ago
Regardless of its status on HN, I should consider subscribing. It looks like it's about $400/year for a digital subscription. A little over a dollar a day is very reasonable. And it looks like there are specials going on right now: $198/year for the first year; or $99 for six months; or $1 for two months. https://buy.wsj.com/wsjusmemorial17/ https://buy.wsj.com/wsjusmemorial17/
As for using the headline as a prompt for discussion, I'm quite sure that's all that drives many commenters on HN :)
- salesguy222 9y agoI appreciate your comment and I mean absolutely no ill will by my response, but in my opinion, $400 a year (or ~$1 a day) is not even remotely close to a reasonable price, for two reasons: 1) my friends and I write to each other every day with more nuanced, researched, investigative journalism/analysis than the WSJ could ever hope to put out. I frequently release anonymous pastebins of my (hopefully impartial, unlike WSJ) analysis for free as a public service and I hope someone promotes them 2) the amount you quoted, $400, is somewhere around 1-2 months worth of total income for easily a billion people in this world. $400 would be considered an excellent monthly salary in a variety of countries, such as Thailand, Vietnam, Bosnia, Serbia, Albania, Ukraine. So for likely the majority of the world, $400 would be almost unjustifiably high for words on a page that don't really offer any profitable or immediately actionable ideas