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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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Joined August 2009

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      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

      2 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      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

      2 replies 2 retweets 11 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      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

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      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

      1 reply 3 retweets 14 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      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"

      3 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
    6. phyphor‏ @phyphor 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and

      People want to pay for art they like. That remains true. And it's how people with Patreon and large, niche, fanbases work. Sci Show is free to watch on YouTube, and yet it has Patreons.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @phyphor @lawnerdbarak and

      People *want* to pay for art they *like*, but in the old days they *had* to pay for art they were merely curious enough to take a look at (And then the ones who actually were fans and really liked it paid more)

      2 replies 1 retweet 20 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      The latter model is objectively "worse for fans" because you have to pay more money, but that also makes it better for creators Once you hit a certain ceiling it is, I hate to say, a zero sum game

      2 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

      Like shit "selling merch" or whatever isn't new In the old days, if you liked the band you had to buy the album first just to hear the music, then you ALSO bought the merch Removing the first step is objectively taking money away from the band

      2 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
    10. phyphor‏ @phyphor 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and

      In the old days music was played *on the radio*. You could hear music there before buying it. Or you could listen to music in a shop before buying it. I do remember this from not that long ago.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
      Replying to @phyphor @lawnerdbarak and

      Radio stations were controversial when they first appeared, and the mechanical license negotiated for their existence was a hard-fought legal battle And listening to music in the record store was fairly inconvenient and annoying and *also* a hard-fought legal battle

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

          And yeah it's easy to dunk on the rightsholders in these disputes -- "If they had their way *libraries* wouldn't exist, *VCRs* would be illegal" -- but it's silly to pretend the financial tradeoff was just made up and doesn't exist

          1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor and

          They did not, in fact, just decide radio stations don't need to pay anything and can just broadcast whatever they want if they bought a copy of the record Just like they didn't decide VCRs meant everyone should be able to tape movies off TV and sell them for a buck

          1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
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