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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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Arjan | That Poetry Guy
@arjantupan
Oh, wow, thank you, Tom. For reading, leaving your thoughts, everything. I really feel we have a shot at bringing the pervmception of value back to our arts.
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Brunni
@brunnicorsato
I was just reading a newsletter from a creator sharing the exact same thought. They make money from promoting their discord (US$1 !!!) on Instagram and is struggling to make ends meet, despite having a large following. They went on to break down their 'earnings' from IG - really sad to see. It's a really difficult process to revert in people's (I refuse to call them consumers) minds, too. The music industry seems to be waking up to it and starting to make movements, also with onchain initiatives, but all very early stages still. Would love to see more artists and creatives proposing and carving out different paths forward.
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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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ciefa 🐌 eth/acc
@ciefa.eth
Interesting. As someone who isn't a creator this is really good to read.
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