Paywalls coming to medium.com: “We're building monetisation”

Re:Paywalls coming to medium.com: “We're building monetisation” by mtbcoder on Friday March 04, 2016 @07:57AM (#11223431)

What people seem to not value are the channels that produce information. Information has become ubiquitous, ephemeral and most often freely available through any other arbitrary channel. For pay walls to work, it's an all-or-nothing system.

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Re:Paywalls coming to medium.com: “We're building monetisation” by wrong_variable on Friday March 04, 2016 @08:30AM (#11223549)

Not really.

Information is more valuable then ever.

I would rather pay 10 dollars for Netflix then torrent.

But guess why I do not pay 10 dollars for Netflix ?

Because Netflix is shit for me. Since I do not live in the US.

The hassle of going to a torrent site and deal with porn ads is cheaper and better then streaming from Netflix.

Since 10 dollar is 45 minutes of working as a programmer - I spend less then 10 minutes a month having to deal with porn ads. Its basic economics. Unless it takes me 45 minutes of porn ad watching I am not going to switch to Netflix - as simple as that.

And guess why I get paid 10 dollars ?

Due to the broken immigration Laws which gives employers an upper hand as I get deported as soon as I lose my job.

Some of the basic needs of life - housing,food - costs me 1/4 of my salary.

And I am at the upper end of the scale - most of my peers are working in coffee shops in shitty service jobs.

Unless this basic calculus change - good luck monetizing selling articles on the web.

-- from a frustrated millennial --

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