alt Hacker NewsThere are articles that have changed my outlook and life so much that months, years, decades later I would value them in the thousands.
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landl0rd • yesterday at 10:33 PM
They didn't change most people's life, though, and/or most people's lives were changed by other articles. Publishers cannot meaningfully price-discriminate on this basis. The closest version is republishing a longer version as a book.
So, consumers are left with some amount of surplus. The horror.
Did you go on to write checks in the thousands to the writers or publications that produced them?