> No print publication on the planet does this. The print editions of the very same publications — The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Yorker — don’t do anything like this.

In Democracy in America, de Tocqueville noted that American publications (unlike those from Europe) packed their pages with ads

This is a fact, America is absolutely leading with this kind of capitalism but Europe is following closely, just like the rest of the world. It’s just matter of time, US just happens to be ahead of everyone else.