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by mrkwse 2307 days ago
Another key tenet is the universality of the fee. Everyone pays the same rate regardless of background, so there should be no preference/bias to creating content for a wealthier demographic that may pay a greater proportion of the fee.

The funding is equally shouldered across the population, so the content should be created with equal consideration too. In practice doesn't always go that way, but that was the principle.

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I don’t think that makes sense. If everyone pays the same, most funding will come from the least wealthy, as there are more of them. Making the wealthy pay more would keep funding sources more equal.
This would mean in theory that 10% of the population would pay 50% of the bbc fee and in turn would receive 50% of the content tailored to them.

It is not about teams being represented the same amount, but about individuals.