And this is coming from someone who was super supportive of Patreon when it started (I even liked Jack Conte and his girlfriend's band Pomplamoose they created it for) "Finally, a way to directly support a person without paying for a specific product"
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This is part of that dual quote, "Information wants to be free" and "Information wants to be expensive" The two exist in constant tension People as a whole are, yes, constantly trying to break past barriers and make content free But once it is free they don't give a shit
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The fact that some lucky few got lucky and got rich, even though other people may have written better stories doesn't make me weep that they might now have to face competition from everyone.
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I mean, long tail discoverability does make things a lot better for very tiny creators now, in some ways! But the MIDLIST is where people need to be to make any kind of decent money, and it's precisely the MIDLIST that has been completely eroded.
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And why has it eroded?
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Yep. So people have to be good, or fill a specific niche. That's not a bad thing, is it?
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