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by addandsubtract 1113 days ago
You forget that people using reddit also provide its content. Should users start charging reddit now as well? Reddit would be nothing without its users.
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> You forget that people using reddit also provide its content.

No, I’m well aware of that.

> Should users start charging reddit now as well?

Absolutely! They should organize and stop posting until Reddit agrees to pay them a fee. Do you think this will work?

> They should organize and stop posting until Reddit agrees to pay them a fee. Do you think this will work?

That's basically what we're doing, but skipping the middleman and overhead of paying and receiving money.