Yes thatās the point. Itās a reintroduction of the idea that the space you see in front of you should be valuable and have weight. Otherwise it isnāt worth your time.
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Or- just another propaganda machine for the wealthy?
If you have a totally free system itās even worse and arguably more beneficial to the wealthy
Something the wealthy would say.
Thatās fair to question, but dismissing an idea solely because it could come from someone wealthy risks missing the point.
The claim isnāt that wealth justifies the system, itās that in any system, value concentrates.
A totally free space without friction often ends up even more skewed, because attention becomes cheap and manipulable.
Introducing cost reintroduces signal.
Or at least itās a worthy experiment to see if it does.
Attention IS cheap, and manipulatable. It canāt become anymore. Speech SHOULD be free. itās the value of the speech that should be paid for, not the space in the square to speak it. All your experimenting for is advertising and propaganda.