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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?

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

Writer, senior editor, music nerd, GenX eldergoth, monastery-bootstrapper. https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson https://tinyurl.com/Black-Stone-Wordsmith

Loosely related to that, the beginning of The Angel's Game comes to mind.

"A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or word of praise in exchange for a story. [...] A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price."