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> I don't value seeing most content at more than penny per view in general and fixed transactional costs make it impractical to send that to each creator.

I find this interesting. What about books? A quick search yields average paperback novels are 300-400 pages long and between $14-18. That's between 2.1-2.9c/page, roughly.

Many articles from quality content creators are > 1 page long. So applying the book pricing, between 5-25c per worthwhile article, give or take. Seems like a penny is pretty heavily undervaluing the product you're getting, then.

As for the impractability of actually distributing those monies to each creator, well, no argument there.




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