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I've been thinking about this. There's two reasons people don't want to pay for free things: one, obviously, because they don't want to spend money; but, two, b
by TheEzEzz 6y ago
I've been thinking about this. There's two reasons people don't want to pay for free things: one, obviously, because they don't want to spend money; but, two, because there's friction associated with signing up to pay. If we made a law that said services like Google have to charge at least $0.01 to use, then we'd force providers and consumers to overcome the second hurdle without much cost, and make it easier for the first hurdle to be overcome over time.
- 542354234235 6y agoTo add, it is hard for companies to resist double dipping. Why have one revenue stream when you can have two? So you do sign up and you come to find out you were still being tracked, you still have ads, etc. You are paying and you are the product. And since services on the internet are currently very centralized, the few big players have little incentive to offer a true paid service without worrying that anyone else can break into the game and really disrupt their market share.