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Tom Beck
@tombeck.eth
I love this insight from @arjantupan's newsletter. Twenty years of the social-media-powered web has trained everyone to accept creative work for free. But it was never free. The costs were hidden, and the value did not flow to the creators.
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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
Preach. The extractive systems that siphon away the value generated by creative labor (and shift costs and risks onto creators) are hidden, so they remain invisible to many people. Meanwhile the price for the collective benefit of "free" creative work is paid out of the creators' pockets. When I first started interviewing musicians I was shocked to learn that even musicians at the height of their careers barely earned pocket money from their albums. Sadly it's only gotten worse since then. Same for writers, photographers, etc. Took me a long time and a lot of investigation to figure out what was really going on, and as @arjantupan mentions, it's still pretty opaque.
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