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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Dec 2018
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      @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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    2. Sam Bhagwat‏ @calcsam 25 Dec 2018
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      do we need aggregation theory for this? or just theory around strength-of-communication channels and relative ease to mobilize mobs?

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Dec 2018
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      Maybe a cultural-aggregation theory. Rent-a-mob. A crowd which owns its creators is basically a stable echo chamber of mutual reinforcement. It's a thing worth owning, but there's a cultural cost to extracting a rent from it. It's a pump to extract trust from commons.

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    4. Sam Bhagwat‏ @calcsam 25 Dec 2018
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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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    5. Sam Bhagwat‏ @calcsam 25 Dec 2018
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      so more mob-renting-a-leader than leader-renting-a-mob

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Dec 2018
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      Yes... Patreon may wear values on its sleeve, but ultimately it's doing the only rational thing: channeling the known cultural opinions of its majority audience. Just like the NYT can stomach a David Brooks but not a Hannity, Patreon can stomach a mild rightie, not a radical

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