​Every piece of junk mail should be required to include a dollar.

Imagine instead of getting annoyed at all the junk mail that clutters up your mail box, the people who spam you with it are required to pay you a dollar for every piece of paper they send you.

Junk mail would be cut down substantially, and the junk mail you still received would likely be more valuable, since the sender would have to pay a higher cost to grab your attention.

Do the same for email, too. If we integrate some kind of 402 gateway, we could massively simplify spam mitigation with micro transactions.

In general, there should just be more mechanisms for paying people directly if you’re a complete stranger and you want to grab their attention.