But... thousands of people are paying to read that one article. The combined volume of all the people, who pay to read the same article, will pay for the cost of researching and writing the article.
ten thousand people pay ten cents to read an article. Yay, that's $1000!
The aggregator takes his cut, so now it's $900.
Taxes, $700.
So about $18 per hour pay for a single reporter assuming it only takes 40 hours to write the article.
And to be blunt, no one is going to pay more than ten cents.
The spotify model does not work to support creation of new works; it only causes monetization of an older back catalog or "gift" works where people essentially give it away while working their day job.
