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The Wiki Man

Let’s pay for the BBC content we use

30 July 2015

1:00 PM

30 July 2015

1:00 PM

What follows is a proposal for reducing the BBC licence fee and improving the corporation’s output while saving the British newspaper industry.

All that’s involved is a basic understanding of pricing psychology combined with a digital currency for micropayments. Under my proposals, half the licence fee would fund the BBC’s Reithian purpose; the other £60 could be paid direct to the BBC as now or, if you chose, paid to you as a digital currency (6,000 Beebcoins).

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