Sure, but remove any mention of micro-payments from my comment and the point is unchanged. I would consider it a minor and optional detail, at least compared to people caring enough about the quality of journalism that hacks would have no audience. I did call that utopian after all.<p>But just because there is a big distance between here and there doesn&#x27;t mean there&#x27;s not a &quot;there&quot; there, and <i>if</i> people cared enough, they <i>would</i> find a way. Yes, it&#x27;s vague, but this island seems to be sinking, the next one looks better to me; that&#x27;s all I <i>can</i> say from here. People liking instant gratification over attention spans and smart long-term decisions is not something to adapt to, much less exploit, it&#x27;s something that we will either deal with, or something that will deal with us.<p>And in regards to micro-payments I think it would also help if anonymity wasn&#x27;t under attack so much. When people seriously drive towards abolishing cash in the physical world, of course introducing the equivalent of cash on the web can&#x27;t really work; I&#x27;m not saying it would be necessarily trivial otherwise, but there&#x27;s a really hostile climate towards it on top of it. It&#x27;s also a political and social problem, not just a technical one.