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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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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020

      Like my point is that if restaurants didn't charge a required bill at all, and instead you tipped *everyone* -- you put down a certain amount of money, and you got to decide what % of the money each staff member got -- it would be a disaster

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020

      It wouldn't be close to fair, and it would likely lead to the business just going under

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020

      Anyway I'm saying this is what the Internet "gift economy" is like When people get to just choose who they do and don't give money to they choose based on all kinds of weird stupid shit Like yes it's loosely correlated with overall popularity but it doesn't make SENSE

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020

      Anyway that's the thing about how people in particular don't pay for porn It's like the clearest possible refutation of "When people really enjoy something and consume a lot of it, they'll throw money your way just because they feel good about it" Apparently not

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020

      Porn is a specific thing that people have really fucked up attitudes about Like you'll see people who are big "fans" of porn stars who actively HATE the people they're "fans" of, who try to dox them and ruin their lives The PornWikileaks scandal etc

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020

      But even if they don't actively hate them there's this sense of stigma Like giving out your credit card marks the difference between a regular upstanding citizen who "happens to look at porn" and a john

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020

      It's absurd and makes no logical sense and most people who feel that way don't consciously take an (obviously hypocritical) anti-sex work position but it's an extremely widespread phenomenon that pretty clearly costs sex workers hundreds of millions of dollars a year

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      That's just the most obvious example based on the most obvious social stigma The people who consume porn obviously don't want it to cease to exist, and yet they act like they do Their behavior isn't "rational" But no one's is

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      I'm running out of steam talking about this but there's so many examples of projects -- whole GENRES of projects -- going under because people are willing to pay for it, while being totally willing to pay for all kinds of shit they don't care about nearly as much

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      This whole set of biases that makes no sense -- freeform podcasts are "worth more" than professionally edited writing, even if the latter takes objectively more hours to make

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      I'm not saying this is a problem created by the "gift economy" and "tipped professions" rather than just being a general problem But if you take negotiating power away from the seller to the maximum degree -- they can't force you to pay anything at all -- it gets so much worse

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        2. Patrick Marcinek‏ @scientist_iam 13 Jun 2020
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          I figure the basic problem is that the idea of all art and information being free and you pay for how highly you value it is always going to end up a precise mirror of the society you put that framework in, because it's informed by the mindset of people IN that society.

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        3. Patrick Marcinek‏ @scientist_iam 13 Jun 2020
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          So if society is built around Capitalism (and not around mutual benefits and support), then you get starving artists, because maximizing profit while minimizing investment is hard-coded in. Why should you pay for something you can get for free?

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