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by fugaziboutit 50 days ago
This captures readers with high willingness to pay. They might only be one reader per 20,000 readers, but without the button there would be no way to capture it.

I often reflect that as a normal consumer of commercial and semi-commercial content I'm operating as a free rider propped up by the occasional whale (who is the real audience). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-to-play#Comparison_with_t...