Yeah I don't disagree. This might be the community to experiment with it though. I think more people here have that value for value mindset. Hell, even us chatting right now. I'm taking time out of your day, your out of mine. But I'm replying to you because you are bringing up interesting points. So we are paying each other with our time right now. But your idea of prepaid is also good. I'm prepaying acces to this network. You are right in that it has that genX "minutes" feel. But it might be worth it.

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Exactly, but we have the cost in time, plus the cost in some fungible asset we likely also exchanged time for. I guess it matters where it goes, maybe like stackernews does it. Pay to post but I believe a portion or a majority goes to the poster, circular economy sort of pays for itself, just a matter of the risk/friction that limits spam. I suppose that could work but not sure relays could enforce monitoring payments essentially.