Bluntly: I really don't think you do. You think you do, but you don't. Imagine you hit that paywall, and it says "get a subscription or pay 0.50c to see this

Bluntly: I really don't think you do. You think you do, but you don't. Imagine you hit that paywall, and it says "get a subscription or pay 0.50c to see this one article". You seriously want me to believe you're gonna go bust out your wallet and punch in your credit card details and pay a fraction of a dollar instead of just closing the window and moving on? Okay, how about we reduce the friction and do the Post.news thing: you buy tokens and then use them. Are you really gonna go buy ten or twenty bucks worth of tokens for the few times when you hit a paid article? Sorry, no. I don't buy it. Every time I see someone say this, it honestly just sounds like an attempt to justify busting down that paywall or refusing to subscribe. "Gee, I would have paid for this article, but I can't... oh well." Ala carte payment friction combined with uncertainty about the value of the content (what if I pay a quarter and the article turns out to be garbage?) reduces the value of content to zero for most people. There's a reason no one has been able to make it work.