Something the wealthy would say.
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That’s fair to question, but dismissing an idea solely because it could come from someone wealthy risks missing the point.
The claim isn’t that wealth justifies the system, it’s 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 it’s a worthy experiment to see if it does.
Attention IS cheap, and manipulatable. It can’t become anymore. Speech SHOULD be free. it’s 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.