Your reply is rather long so I'll only respond to 2 sections to avoid us speculating randomly without actually referring to data or running actual experiments.

Your reply is rather long so I'll only respond to 2 sections to avoid us speculating randomly without actually referring to data or running actual experiments. To clarify: > That's why I find the prospect of making posting expensive threatening to society's capacity for beneficial change. I suggested making it cost something. "Expensive" is a relative term and for some reason you unjustifiably assumed that I'm proposing "expensive", however defined. Incentive design is about the marginal cost of using a resource, as you later observed when you suggested $5. We often observe in real life (swimming pools, clubs, public toilets, hiking trails, camping grounds) that introducing a trivial marginal cost often deters bad actors and free-loaders[^0]. It's what's referred to in ideas such as "the tragedy of the commons". > An approach that might help is something like this: Require companies to charge a very small set amount to make each individual post Yes that's a marginal cost, which is what I suggested. So basically, we agree. The rest is implementation details that will depend on jurisdiction, companies, platforms and so forth. > I don't think that adding a cost to the posts will end up paying for mental healthcare without careful regulation. Without data or case studies to reference, I can't speculate about that and other things that are your opinions but thank you for thinking about the proposal and responding. > Where are all the foundations helping provide moderator mental health treatment? This is a pretty widely reported issue; I'd expect to see wealthy benefactors trying to solve it, yet the problem remains unsolved. I don't mean to sound rude but have you tried to solve the problem and start a foundation? Why is it some mysterious wealthy benefactor or other people who should solve it rather than you who cares about the problem? Why do you expect to see others and not yourself, solving it? Raising funds from wealthy people for causes is much easier than people imagine. --- [^0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem