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I live on 350 Euros a month; my rent is 180 Euros. I literally cannot find 3 bucks to be part of a community. I am not a parasite.

I apologize for my above comment. I should have been more thoughtful. You are absolutely not a parasite and do have value.

You’re a good person

Even the idea of payment to access a community is just absurd. If I'm an integral part of a tight-knit community I can see myself participating in common expenses, but I would never pay for access. At that point you're just a consumer buying a service.

>Even the idea of payment to access a community is just absurd.

Is it?

If we put aside the common notion that "everything on the internet is and should be free-as-in-beer and fuck you if you disagree", is it really that absurd?

Communities more often than not prefer setting up some kind of filtering to weed out certain people, and a paywall is one of those filters.

So every time I have a 1/10th chance to find some useful information on some subreddit, I should pay 3$ for that same chance?