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Global median per-capita daily income is $8. So I have to spend my whole day's income to upload a video? You're effectively restricting speech to the rich, an
by dsjoerg 7y ago
Global median per-capita daily income is $8. So I have to spend my whole day's income to upload a video?
You're effectively restricting speech to the rich, and the poor just have to sit there and listen. That would be sad and unnecessary.
- crankylinuxuser 7y agoSo it would be like old terrestrial over the air television. No?
- goatinaboat 7y agoYou can afford a camera, a laptop and a high speed connection, but not a token amount to cover moderating your upload? I don’t imagine this being a common scenario.
- Mirioron 7y agoYou can make videos on a computer that you can get for a few hundred dollars. That means you could make 20-30 videos for the same amount of money your equipment cost. That is a prohibitive scenario. I create content for YouTube and if I had to pay $10 per video then I would never make another YouTube video again. It doesn't matter that there are thousands of people (and tends of thousands+ sometimes), because I simply couldn't afford to spend time and effort to make a video and then spend extra money to share it. You could make the argument that perhaps society is better off if I don't create content, but there are at least some people that claim they enjoy it.