As more content shifted online, traditional business models that supported its creation - album sales, book royalties, subscription fees - began to crumble. The abundance of free content trained internet users to expect everything to be free all the time. 

Why pay for the cow when you can get the milk for free?

As more content shifted online, traditional business models that supported its creation - album sales, book royalties, subscription fees - began to crumble. The abundance of free content trained internet users to expect everything to be free all the time. 

Why pay for the cow when you can get the milk for free?

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-internets-original-sin

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/

Dad, geek, conversation liquidity provider. vrypan.net (home), /weatherxm (work), @l--o--l (fun). Also https://paragraph.xyz/@purplesubmarine

Because creators deserve to be paid for their work

Indeed, why? Why force down our throats a model based on the assumption that distribution has choke points and friction, when we finally got practically free, unstoppable distribution?