@benthompson holiday hypothesis for you to mull re: Patreon... aggregation is “bad” if all you’re doing is aggregating an audience with cultural curation and no real tech leverage. Bad in the sense of leading to toxic cultural dynamics. Either aggregate with tech or not at all.
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like the crowd-that-owns-the-creator piece -- sounds like argument is there's a "market" emerging for cultural agitators same way there's a market for CNN talking heads -- increased liquidity in this market sort of like increased liquidity in crowdfunding 3rd-world-militias?
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so more mob-renting-a-leader than leader-renting-a-mob
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