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>40. Penny Problem Gap: Economists assume demand is linear, but people’s behavior totally changes once an action costs money. If the inventors of the Internet h
by superkuh 6y ago
>40. Penny Problem Gap: Economists assume demand is linear, but people’s behavior totally changes once an action costs money. If the inventors of the Internet had known about it, spam wouldn’t be such a problem. If sending an email cost you $0.001, there’d be way less spam.
Or, more likely, the internet as we know it would not exist and it'd just be some crappy failed commercial venture where everything cost money and it never took off. Building commerce into protocols is a terrible idea.
- gxon 6y agoAnd yet, we desperately want to find a better model so we can stop feeding the ad demon.
- cecja 6y agoI remember paying by the minute for internet access so this argument is kinda null especially when you think of the early days of email which predates the internet and in which you basically had to pay for email.