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Universal access, as in everyone need to pay 8 dollars a month for the privilege.
Yeah, I still dont get why people can't just work for for free! Greedy bastards.
Especially publishers. It's not like they play an important role in modern society, at all. They can do research, perform interviews and write stories during the day, and then, if they absolutely need food and a friggin' roof over their heads, they can work at McDonald's or something in the evenings.
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News agency should've been operated by non-profit organizations IMO. The non-profit organizations can be funded by grants, donations, etc (e.g. like how wikimedia is funded).
Or public, like the BBC for example.
Probably not the best idea though for independent journalism. My country had a publicly funded news agency and it was notorious for never reporting any bad thing the government did.
Speaking from the US, so please forgive my underlying bias:
If we could figure out how to actually maintain a "separation of powers" maybe we could actually have a little more "for the people, by the people". And I don't mean it as just a US standpoint (though I am quoting our doctines), because I do believe that those ideologies have merit. But here I am in the US, still "wondering" how "separation of church and state" can't be (and never truly was) maintained.
People hold the power AND people need to be held accountable. I really wish we could find a way to balance that appropriately. Maybe simply throwing around a few more "-isms" could fix it (the last sentence is sarcasm)
I'd rather my taxes go to public services than being diluted into the pockets of middle-men. Publishers are still be valuable, but they have to adapt like everyone else. Education, healthcare, and information... sounds like a recipe for too much equality; better to stomp that out and continue forth, like the term "future" doesn't exist for everyone
Why would I want change when I'm finally getting the hang of things? That sounds difficult and scary, and I might have to adjust my lifestyle... and for what? Other people!? Morals!? Justice!? We already have those, otherwise I would've never made it to where I am today... backslash-fucking-s
If democracy wasn't constantly undermined by greed, we might actually solve real problems. But problems are too far in the future for me, when I'll no longer be alive to care. Continue status-quo than, nothing we can do
I mean, libraries do cost you money too. You just don't see the itemized bill.
Taxes are the subscription fee of life.
Well I'm glad we all agree that "universal access" always has a cost, so unless you want to nationalize the press I'm not sure what y'all want.
Maybe we can just leave them a profit driven third party that you are legally required to support with your taxes? Seems like praxis to me, no problems with that at all.
Equity. I just don't know how we'll ever achieve it. A common enemy of the human race, maybe? We've already perfected fighting each other. Maybe if a "physical something" were attacking us, that we could kill; we might find a little more "human camaraderie".
Put a scooby-doo-type mask on climate change, so we can have something physical to try and punch. But "Jinkies! It was something intangible this whole time!".