First, do we want to live in a world where people pay for content? I’m not sure. For one, it presumes the most valuable things should be closed, when the beauty of the web is that that zero marginal cost of production means the most valuable things should reach whomever they are relevant to.
I think at least what this model does is it gives journalists that confidence in their own worth both intellectually with their ability and monetarily. [It makes you think], ‘Oh, I actually could be worth quite, quite a bit. My ideas are good.’ I think that we need that. I think we’ve been undervalued by both our employers and by politicians and by... See more
Walmart, Target, Instacart, and Amazon have collectively hired hundreds of thousands since February but that number will never be in the millions. This leaves a hole in the market. Where will America’s millions of retail employees work next?