TBH that could work. I remember lots of talk in the late 90s about messaging systems where you'd pay the recipient of an email -- there was a not-great-but-good

TBH that could work. I remember lots of talk in the late 90s about messaging systems where you'd pay the recipient of an email -- there was a not-great-but-good-ideas sf book, I think Earthweb, which had a great moment where a character, feeling crowded by another, bumped up his price for receiving messages from non-contacts to a high amount and realised the other character was in earnest when they paid that amount. Often thought it would make a good startup, though I don't doubt that it's been done and didn't work out for one reason or another.