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by whatisyour 973 days ago
When has increased barrier to communication ever been good? It's better to reduce barrier and change training rather increase barrier as a punishment.
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> When has increased barrier to communication ever been good?

Phone call costs used to mean you probably wanted to answer every phone call you received, rather than missing calls you should have answered because you're so used to ignoring them since most are spam and fraud. IDK about good in terms of humanity or whatever, but if I could snap my fingers and set a $0.05/minute rate on all phone calls, and $0.15 for long distance connections of any kind, I'd do it, because it'd be a net-improvement for everyone I know.

> It's better to reduce barrier and change training rather increase barrier

The medium is the message. You want to change the message, look at the medium, not the people.