The signal given by articles that make it to the top of news aggregators would be even stronger if they were all paid content. No one is going to post or upvote

The signal given by articles that make it to the top of news aggregators would be even stronger if they were all paid content. No one is going to post or upvote something they didn’t like and lost money on. It also sounds like it would be a healthy limit on your media consumption if you’re reading 160 articles per day right now.