I don't think people realize this Your favorite obscure indie artist you found on Spotify makes *literally no money* from Spotify Like *literally* a few hundred bucks, max, for the sum total of all the time they've been on it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
Sure, but I can also go and buy the track directly from the artist to support them. Do I need to go and photograph the actual CDs I have from these artists to prove that the model works? I don't know what you're trying to argue, here. You claim that no other model works.
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Replying to @phyphor @lawnerdbarak and
I claim that this model works less well for most artists than the model we had before, and the takes you can find arguing that the Internet and the sharing economy was going to be a brave new world of freely spread wealth are from the mid-2000s before this turned out not to work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and
What I claim is, I think, fairly easily observable -- traditional publishing has been slowly caving in and leaving a ton of creative people out of work And the Internet revolution we were promised would replace it makes it really, really hard to make money
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Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and
Like I hate to break it to you but most "Internet people" are really fucking poor You don't realize -- even *famous* Internet people are just making what in the pre-Internet era was a middle-class living for someone with their analogous job
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
I'm aware. It's why, when I'm working, I support those artists and creators who make content I like. But I'm also not sure what point you're trying to make. Most people are doing badly right now, but that's a whole other problem.
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Replying to @phyphor @arthur_affect and
But, again, people are able to make a living doing their passion, making art, and getting paid for it. How is that a broken system? How is the fact that people can find a niche and fill out a bad thing?
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Replying to @phyphor @lawnerdbarak and
The presence of *somebody somewhere* making money isn't an argument that a system is just fine Like if it were then everything would be just fine -- tipped waitstaff would be fine, Uber drivers would be fine
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Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and
There is observable relative movement of where the money is going in the "art economy" and it's both going down in total and a greater proportion is going toward the top "Mid-level" creators in every industry are being rapidly killed off
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Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and
I mean sure this is a subset of what's happening to the whole economy -- the middle class is vanishing, corporations are posting record stock prices while everyone struggles to get paid I posit that's because it's one general phenomenon -- the price of labor diving toward zero
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The role of Big Tech in "disintermediating" against "rent-seekers", the ethos of "I can always find someone to do what you do for slightly cheaper, until the price reaches the lowest level it possibly can", the whole Uber/Fiverr/AirBNB phenomenon
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Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and
And I don't get how people don't see the conversation about IP and piracy as the *same conversation* "Well, the price point you have to compete with is $0 All you're actually charging for is the convenience of not having to look for a torrent"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and
Pirate sites often times include fishing tricks and trackers, enabling third parties to gain access to your data.
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