One of the reasons why it was noti considered a barrier was the ability to purchase a single issue for a very reasonable price (or even read somebody else’s copy or the copy made available by the bar) vs being asked to subscribe

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jameshart 16 hours ago | parent [-]

I shared a gift link here. You could go to your local library and look it up. What's the complaint here?

	▲	simoncion 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not OP, but a big part of the complaint is that one can't pay 10USD to read the issue that contains the article in question... absent the charity of someone else, one must pay -at minimum- nine times that amount. [0] Ten bucks is pretty close to "I don't even need to think about it" money. Ninety is -for most folks- nowhere near that. [0] <https://accounts.theatlantic.com/products>