Ask HN: Why paywalls and not curation
So Yanis Varoufakis has written an Op-Ed piece for the Financial Times (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;yanisvaroufakis.eu&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;01&#x2F;something-is-rotten-in-the-eurozone-kingdom-my-op-ed-in-the-financial-times&#x2F;) which is admittedly unclear and needs some background knowledge to understand.  I do prattle on about Yanis too much, but this is not quite the point - the point was I went to the FT site to check out the article (which had been cross posted on his own site) and ... Could not read it because paywall.<p>But it is on his site, and available to all. So all the FT has done is put a curated list of articles, some written by in house staff, behind a paywall.<p>Why not make this a reality and publish an RSS feed and be done with it?<p>Am I already years behind the curve on this one, or is it reasonable for me to want to have access to the FT&#x27;s editors picks, say subscribe to the &quot;official list&quot; and maybe follow some of the more interesting sub editors?<p>Why paywall ?