I'd like to start giving people the option of commenting on shorter Cold Takes pieces (which I don't cross-post here or provide audio for). I'm going to use this post for that: I will generally leave a comment for each piece, and people can leave their comments as replies to that.
I agree that "voting with one's feet" is an interesting angle. Some discussion of this angle is here (search for "Certainly, the part closest to my area of expertise raises questions").