It's probably time to rethink "Building in public"

Re:It's probably time to rethink "Building in public" by chongli on Sunday September 22, 2024 @03:41PM (#41619426)

Lots of people won't pay for journalism anymore. You'd have a hard time convincing me (or most other people on here) that journalism is no longer important.

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Re:It's probably time to rethink "Building in public" by givemeethekeys on Sunday September 22, 2024 @04:05PM (#41619604)

Lots of people won't pay for something they can otherwise get for free, even if the free option is mediocre.

This does not mean that journalism isn't valuable enough to some people. It just means that the market for journalism shrank.

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Re:It's probably time to rethink "Building in public" by jeffhwang on Sunday September 22, 2024 @04:16PM (#41619708)

This is the short-sightedness of market fundamentalism. To take this to a ridiculous extreme, if I decide that taking care of my children is no longer ROI-positive, should I just decide this market has shrunk and the prudent thing to do is invest in new markets?

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Re:It's probably time to rethink "Building in public" by chongli on Sunday September 22, 2024 @04:23PM (#41619757)

It's the diamonds vs water paradox of value. Diamonds are highly valued yet practically useless to most people. Water is extremely low-valued, yet essential to all life on earth.

High-quality, investigative journalism is an essential institution for a functioning democracy, yet it's not valued by the people it is most important to: average citizens.

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Re:It's probably time to rethink "Building in public" by hackable_sand on Sunday September 22, 2024 @05:40PM (#41620329)

Water is extremely high-valued.

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Re:It's probably time to rethink "Building in public" by hollerith on Sunday September 22, 2024 @05:47PM (#41620370)

You're in luck! I have water to sell you. Get out that checkbook!

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Re:It's probably time to rethink "Building in public" by yMEyUyNE1 on Monday September 23, 2024 @03:10AM (#41623185)

How about a bullet? :)

https://theworld.org/stories/2024/08/27/a-rise-in-water-rela...

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Re:It's probably time to rethink "Building in public" by hackable_sand on Monday September 23, 2024 @01:13PM (#41628326)

Water is given or taken. It does not transact.

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Re:It's probably time to rethink "Building in public" by hollerith on Monday September 23, 2024 @02:37PM (#41629176)

Let me guess: so say the natives of Arrakis?

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