Pay to Play in Information Markets

[Jim Choate]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Nomen Nescio wrote:

> This has been a long debate among hard-core capitalist types who want
> to see everything have a price. 

Ask them how much they'd charge to change their view...

> In a voluntary system for exchanging
> and publishing information, who should pay and who should be paid?

This is silly. Both participants are 'sellers' from the others
perspective. Both are 'buyers' from their own perspective.


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