If I had to pay $100/month for cable TV plus $100/month for various subscriptions, I would have been bankrupt 10 years ago. There are places on Earth where that

If I had to pay $100/month for cable TV plus $100/month for various subscriptions, I would have been bankrupt 10 years ago. There are places on Earth where that money makes a difference when one is unemployed or essentially retired. My point wasn't related to the amount of money however but rather just having to pay something since the goal is not to make a business but to discourage trolls and spammers. If email cost everywhere say 2 €cents per email sent, I would gladly pay because I know that the side effect of it would be the immediate elimination of spammers, whose existence rely on how easy is today sending bulks of hundreds of thousands posts for free.