Micropayments are locally good for you, but might have a global effect of making news providers chase just the things that people will provide the micropayments for, creating another variant on the &quot;Buzzfeed&quot; problem, just with a different focus.<p>Although, to be honest, I&#x27;m not sure how to fix that problem. Trying to create a system that provides news people need instead of news people want is a fundamentally hard problem when those two things don&#x27;t overlap.