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Comment by jasonvorhe | Hacker News Reader

Paywalled, unfortunately.

The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”

He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”

“I think otherwise,” the door said.

Well played :)

IHMO, the second half is more apt for the HN crowd. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7444685-the-door-refused-to...

Here you go https://outline.com/pWXZNv

That's the future they are trying to tell us about.

It is only 5 paragraphs more, mostly enumerating cases of scifi->reality adoption. Imo, not worth 5 cents requested, thinks the door so or not.

Isn’t there a contradiction between the constant complaining about paywalls by the HN crowd and the same crowd’s dislike of ad driven platforms? Someone wrote this - don’t they need to get paid for it?

Only if it's the same people complaining about each. Also most people don't care so much about ads as they do the malware and tracking that often comes with them. It's possible to do ads right, there's just zero economic incentive to do so at present.

If the it's neoliberal journalism surely the market, rather than ideology, should decide how it should be paid for?

Currently, the market seems more keen on ads.

Personally, I'd be happy to pay for investigative journalism (e.g. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations)... but not the kind of journalism which cites "tweets" as research and doesn't think enough of its journalists to give them a byline.

Indeed, publications can choose to survive on ads or subscriptions. The market will dictate who’s successful.

Not if we stop posting paywalled content. There's plenty of great content that is not restricted.

I for one don't have a problem with ads, I do use my GDPR privileges to turn off ad based tracking when I come to a new site and I feel it's good enough to warrant staying (if they don't let me turn it off I generally leave, if the experience is really bad sometimes I make a complaint)

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