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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
New short essay (3 min read) on value and creative labor. TL;DR: - The vast majority of pro writers don’t earn a sustainable living from their creative work. - This is a huge collective loss. - Can web3 do better? https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson/writers-web3-and-earning-a-living/?referrer=danicaswanson.eth
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Samuel
@samuellhuber.eth
Feel like @cameron would have input on this. Basically how web3 can enable content to stand on its own as monetization instead of having to play the chase followers and ask for subs sales game. More writing less shilling To me collect on paragraph and things like that are an awesome way. Tipping natively like warps
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Appreciate the tag! Inside me there are 2 wolves. The first one sees the state of the ecosystem and can’t help but wonder if society has honestly priced the value of good writing. Maybe writing as a tool is already relegated to the dustbin of history? The 2nd is building creator tools to test that thinking.
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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
Thanks for commenting. Though I'm not aligned with the first wolf about the value of writing, I agree that an honest reckoning with this issue makes it awfully hard to stay hopeful about the state of the ecosystem. Web3 has a long way to go in recognizing how this hidden value flow dynamic constrains creative work.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
The tough part for me isn't that I think good writing is worthless... It's that I think most people are worthless at identifying good writing. And ofc it's inherently hard to value, which means "true price" discovery of good words is really really hard (and the incentive is to underpay writers 😩)
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Samuel
@samuellhuber.eth
well yeah its like how can I judge if it isn't public? there needs to be public part -> free then others share more for free -> anything is free that is where we are now but financial reports and writing if you built a reputation can be sold like consultant gigs for $$$ also technical stuff needs a clear nieche
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
All you’re describing DOES exist in places like Fiverr - the challenge (as Danica points out) is that those rates aren’t a living wage 🫠
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Samuel
@samuellhuber.eth
oh I meant stuff like https://www.exunoplures.hu/ where you pay 20k / year to read one mans PoV on global financial plumbing to be fair he is really really bright and understands it so I get the value prop
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