Hypothetical Tumblr Pro

Nick Cernis:

Imagine a web publishing platform that costs $10 per month.

$5 of that $10 goes to the platform company for the boring stuff.

The other $5 gets split evenly between the writers, photographers, videographers, designers, and other creative people you follow who also pay to use the platform, up to a maximum of — say — 20 followers, hand-picked by you.

I love it. I couldn’t pay $10 a month for every blog I enjoy. But I could pay that to read blogs, period. The people who are good would make fair money.

I’d make $1.33 a month.