I have friends who a few years ago switched away from WhatsApp because it was charging 1 buck per year, and for that amount of money they gave you instant global unlimited text messaging, and those same people would have happily paid 10x that for a one-time meal.

I think you are grossly overestimating how much the average person is willing to pay for a digital service.

And I don't think newspapers are a good precedent giving how nobody buys newspapers anymore, compared to pre-internet levels at least.