Imagine a world where no content is free but all of it is worth the price
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I’m trying to think this through but I’m stuck on the “worth” bit. Value is probably the other side of the transaction. Both are pretty hard to nail down for both the creator and the consumer. Challenging thought!
imagine never having to worry if your engagement is getting tanked because of wrong think and then offering numerous suggestions to fix things, but the CEO literally doesn't know shit about computer stuff and then the company tells you to just stop posting so much because of math or whatever.
oh and by the way, when you're a good boy or girl and tweet things that mesh well with the AlgoMaster you get heavily botted by fake Elon accounts.
lovely.
freedom to choose is preferred
Bring back just paying for stuff directly.
The “free” content model where you don’t have to pay for content upfront—but end up paying for it over time via surveillance and spam on every channel—has become a nightmare.
Just pay for stuff and get stuff.
While they're at it, they can bring back piecemeal (pay per item) as an alternative to subscriptions
Agree. The “everything as a subscription” model is also a stupid clusterfuck.
In somewhat related news, I’ve been telling employers that dollars-per-hour is a shit way to pay employees, because almost no employment is paying for time. They’re paying for stuff to be done. So why not pay per unit of stuff done?
Usually because stuff done is not easily quantifiable, or varies in value. Things like fruit picking it's far easier to quantify.
For sure. Totally correct.
Designing a new pay structure certainly wouldn’t be easy—and it might have to be done on a business-to-business basis—however, it would likely be a worthwhile effort.