Saturday, July 23, 2005

Why Do I Care?

Why does it seem that I care so much about criticizing micropayments? I think it just boils down to the idea of additional payments. I hate paying bills, and the thought of paying one extra bill a month for internet usage - remember, micropayments are payments to view pages, not just to access the actual internet - is just so ridiculous to me. I already pay for the internet....just ask Comcast....

Additionally, I just can't seem to understand how anyone would choose to pay additional money just so they are freed of annoying advertising......while they are being "freed" of their money.

I also think that my distaste for this whole concept - which doesn't seem to be growing in popularity beyond a novelty - is also due to the fact that I have a bit of faith in a free-market system to "weed out" useless, unnecessary and annoying products. If the internet surfing experience is not fulfilling....annoying....and not efficient, people should demand it be better with their individual choice....that way everyone can enjoy the consequential efficiency because it is internet-wide. With mmicropayments....some people might be left behind, like those who cannot afford them or just refuse to pay them. Let's just try and reduce the number of bills we have at the end of every month, shall we.

1 Comments:

At 1:40 PM, Blusher said...

Right on! We already pay for Internet service; we shouldn't have to pay more just to avoid advertising.

I think we're all in agreement that we don't need another bill during the month.

 

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