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Because it discriminates a marginalized group which is by tradition very important to the FOSS community: students

Also, no it wouldn't kill spam. The spam would be moved to pwned machines where the owner would suddenly have an incentive (financial) to fix the system, if they know.

What remains is people who would be so rich that $1 means nothing to them. Ie. white collar criminals who are already rich enough to not care.

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