You linked to google. Should you pay them? If you shouldn’t, why should google pay to link to news? Google news is not a profit center for google. They make mo

You linked to google. Should you pay them? If you shouldn’t, why should google pay to link to news? Google news is not a profit center for google. They make money from ads. The whole “pay us for sending us traffic” argument has the economics of the web completely backwards. Organizations try to get links, as it sends them traffic. Should hacker news pay money to the sites it links to? Or do they benefit from being here?