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JonDowd762 t1_jde6ht9 wrote

Reply to comment by ThomasMaxwell2501 in Why Kids Aren’t Falling in Love With Reading by drak0bsidian

There's more free news content than ever before. Kids aren't falling out of love with reading because of a few paywalls. They aren't falling out of love with Marvel movies due to the Disney+ paywall either. They still enjoy legos, ice cream and video games despite those also costing money.

I get it, it's annoying to run into a paywall. But you can't blame them for every problem in the world.

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AlunWeaver t1_jdeh995 wrote

Yeah, this one got a laugh out of me. Like some teenager's literary curiosity is killed for life, all because they couldn't read The Atlantic for free.

Redditors love bitching about paywalls because they are the exact people discussed in this article: they don't value quality writing or journalism, so the idea of paying for it is completely absurd to them.

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embe_3 t1_jdo1l3o wrote

Can you pay for a single article?

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