Why I write this?
1. Hopefully someone reading HN works for newspapers and can tell them that there exist a good number of people who doesn't want to subscribe but who want to pay for quality content[0].
I guess on average I pay $5 every time I glance over an article in the Guardian.
2. I want to urge more people around here to support companies and organizations that do the right thing. I guess many of you already do but many do not.
When we go to school or work in low paying jobs it is hard to pay and I guess it is easy for that habit to stick long after we cross into the richest 10 or 20% of the population.
[0]: I do also subscribe to two newspapers and one magazine and buy the paper from the kid who sell it every Sunday morning. Oh, and buy magazines and books. And pay my mandatory news tax (about $500 alone) that funds the national somewhat lopsided broadcasting channel. I'm happy to pay a bit more for individual articles but I cannot subscribe to every paper (and I wouldn't have a chance to read them all either)
(Feels extremely weird to brag like this. That's why I made a new account.)