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Maybe you could list ones you think could work...? I've heard several proposed, none of them make a lot of sense to me. Patreon? Government grants? Or what?
by robbrown451 5y ago
Maybe you could list ones you think could work...? I've heard several proposed, none of them make a lot of sense to me. Patreon? Government grants? Or what?
- andrepd 5y agoSure! One idea I like is this: you pay a small, fixed subscription on top of your internet bill. This amount is then given proportionally to the websites/services you visit. This is nice for several reasons: even a small amount (~3-5$) gives a similar or higher revenue for content creators than ads do (a very rough back-of-the-envelope estimate based on youtube CPM). Plus, there's no problem with the friction of paying for things: you pay the same, regardless of watching 1 or 1000 videos (the netflix model, the cable tv model, heck any subscription model). Plus of course: no ads :)
- robbrown451 5y agoProportionally? How does that work? Is it based on time of usage? So sites will now have an incentive to keep you on the site as long as possible? Not sure I like that. Also, do people who use the internet for half an hour a week pay the same as those that spend all day online? Not sure I like that either. I do like the general idea, I suppose, but trying to make it reward people who actually add value, proportional to that value, is not an easy problem.