journalism

 The Way to be Free

Money is too expensive! The internet, the most innovative, liberating, and communicative forum there has been throughout history, is inaccessible to the vast majority of the world’s population. This is not only because socioeconomic hardships prevent one from acquiring twentieth and twenty-first century technologies, it is moreover, the pricing is unreasonable.

At an eyes glance, pricing seems reasonable. No big deal to charge $10 per month on a subscription to The Guardian. $4 per month to the New York Times without a second thought. Pitch out $20 to the economist, $10 to Wall Street Journal, and $100 to the Chatham House— it’s out of most people’s price range. Most individuals in the world cannot afford to pay much more expenses as it is.

People cannot afford that. It’s more than three times the price of Spectrum internet, the most available internet service around, is about $25 per month and most people do not get incomes of more than $3/day. They deserve to have access to the internet too! Not only can they not afford it, even in the most wealthy nation in the world, the United States of America, it is far above the majority of the polity’s abilities to cover with their monthly allotments.

.Money is far too expensive! The way it sorts out is that to pay for the internet, one cannot pay for food.

And how much more expensive in places of internet blackouts. When one can’t find the time or the means to skim through the daily news, the news that streams through the most diffuse area on the internet—they cannot find it on their smartphones, tablets, or computers—it becomes more difficult to plan and schedule appointments and there is great inflation at the supermarket. Transient unemployment skyrockets. Cities get busy. People are low on money. They can only afford half the regular groceries. Schools are shut down.

Money is too expensive. Hopefully this can be ameliorated by bringing all of life’s basic needs—life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness—into the central structure of our daily expectations; all of life—food and water; all of liberty—the First Amendment; and all of pursuit of happiness—the internet.

by Ben Bussewitz