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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 13 Jun 2020

      If being a mediocre software engineer pays 100x better than being a world-class violinist then no matter how much you love playing the violin a fuckton of violinists will just quit and become software engineers and the orchestras will all just have to shut down

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      There IS tremendous downward pressure on live performers' compensation, especially now that these days they are competing hard with recorded media as a substitute (and the price of recorded media has tremendous downward pressure from piracy)

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      But the "cost disease" cannot be defeated Whatever "a decent wage" is for an average person in the society you live in - the highest wage you can expect to make for something that takes as much effort as becoming a violinist - *that's how much a violinist costs*

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      You will never actually succeed at pushing the price of a string quartet down to the price of hiring someone to stock shelves at Wal-Mart Because if I wanted to do a job for those wages I'd do one that doesn't require learning to play the violin

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      You can never drive the price of creative fields like this down to the low low levels you hunger for, you can't make a "string quartet sweatshop" with slave labor in China and sell concert tickets for $0.05 on Amazon All you can do is kill the creative field entirely

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      And when you realize asshole economists really think of Baumol's cost disease as a *disease* - "WHY can't we drive these prices down lower through competition?" - and that plenty of asshole laymen unconsciously share this opinion even if they can't name it, it all makes sense

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      The dickhead libertarian "exchange theory of value" as opposed to the Marxist "labor theory of value" The idea that price reflects nothing at all other than how much value it gives the customer, and bringing the worker's actual needs into the picture is "coddling" them

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      "Your indie movie was only 50% as entertaining to me as a huge big budget Marvel movie so I should only have to pay 50% as much to rent it" "Prices for Broadway shows are out of control, live theatre is entertaining but not THAT much more entertaining than movies"

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      "Why should I have to pay a full $15 for this indie game? It's barely half an hour of content If you're going to charge 25% of the sticker price of Doom Eternal then I deserve 25% of the total entertainment value of a AAA game"

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      People in this piracy discourse turn into shitty libertarians real fast "Why do you think you deserve to make a living wage for your shitty books no one likes Do you think people with real jobs should *subsidize* you, like Marie Antoinette?"

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      Yeah, actually, I do Baumol's cost "disease" just means we're not all in the position of sweatshop laborers That we deserve and can demand to get paid more the bare minimum - or nothing at all - just for turning in mediocre work

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          All the assholes on forexposure_txt are trying to fight Baumol's cost disease "I don't think you should get paid just for working I think you should release your work for free and then *maybe* people can *decide* to pay you for your work, if it's *good*"

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          And because some people really do love their art that much, people make the economically irrational choice to do so, and by so doing largely ruin their lives

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          "So you're saying that in your ideal world people would all pay additional taxes and then those taxes should go to a salary for any rando who posts smut on AO3" Well I think all the randos should all get a salary for doing nothing (UBI) but that's beside the point

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          But yes I genuinely do think moving the needle in the direction of that strawman is necessary The "participation threshold" for getting paid as a producer and having to open your wallet as a consumer should be much lower

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          Like I was talking about earlier, the world of the 90s where buying a bunch of albums you turned out not to like or buying tickets to a lot of movies you turned out not to like was the "tax" you paid for being someone generally "into" music or "into" movies

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          It's the moral thing to do, just like it's the moral thing to always tip your waiter the suggested amount, even if your waiter really sucks You're defending the "cost disease", the price floor - the really bad waiters still have to make money so the profession still exists

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          Creative fields, especially, follow a power law distribution The works that genuinely become classics that nearly everyone agrees are great are very rare They only exist because of a general artistic community that "subsidizes" art existing in general until someone breaks out

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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          If you bristle at the idea that your money keeps getting spent on "regret" purchases that you didn't think were really worth it, remember the "mid-tier" games and music and movies you love were paid for mostly by people who didn't love them and just wanted to try them out

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        10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          Yes, everyone is broke right now - although that's us ALL being in the same boat, ALL of our wage floors being attacked as a "disease" ("Why should cab drivers' wages get propped up when anyone can drive a car? Why should hotel staff have jobs when anyone can have guests?")

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        11. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          There's a lot of strategic errors that have been made in this tug-of-war, red CD prices in the 90s probably really were too high, ebooks could've tried harder to compete on perceived quality to justify the price point rather than the Big 6 just trying to kill them completely

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        12. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          One big thing I'm fascinated by is apparently Tim Berners-Lee coming to think the Web itself was designed badly, that the assumptions behind its design made it way too easy to strip context and attribution (by default the owner of an asset has no control over being linked to)

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        13. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          The Internet as it's designed currently makes the concept of "invisible microtransactions" almost impossible And that's a compelling image of an alternative Internet that seems like a pipe dream today but could possibly have worked

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        14. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          Instead of big visible subscription paywalls everywhere, an invisible process by which you pay something like $10-20 a month for being online and the money gets split between the owners of whatever content you looked at No advertisers need to get involved

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        15. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          "But Arthur, people would absolutely game such a system, they would mirror content or archive it or spoof their own IP to avoid giving people money for clicks and steal clicks from others" Yeah I know That's already the world we live in now, only worse, because ads are involved

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        16. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

          And advertising-based models are, like, the worst - combining all the downsides of all the other models And the specific way in which advertisers decide want to get paid is what incentivizes the consolidation of giant corporate content hosts who spy on everybody

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