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If you look at a current example, a lot of Buzzfeed's success seems to attributed by people to the crowdsourced work at Reddit - up-to-date and current trends a
by loceng 11y ago
If you look at a current example, a lot of Buzzfeed's success seems to attributed by people to the crowdsourced work at Reddit - up-to-date and current trends and content is provided and filtered for them to easily digest and compile - especially photo content.
Re: Google, Apple, Amazing, etc - In reality anyone who already has an organization or infrastructure to curate or the pool of funds to use and/or has the audience to promote to would be able to provide these services/do these tasks more efficiently.
Is this bad though? IMHO it's only bad if an unbalanced or unfair amount of resources are made or left with an organization or group of people - leaving others at a deficit and potentially suffering instead of all of this productivity increasing abundance and quality of life for everyone. You could apply same thought exercise to taxes.
Systems are only bad when there are frictions and inefficiencies allowed to exist to benefit one group more than another, otherwise you can create roles to reduce unavoidable frictions.
If an artist was able to travel the world freely (literally at no cost), the only real issue then is having space available for such an event - so then you'd have people who curate those spaces letting the artist in or not or based on criteria of how many fans they have in that part of the world, and perhaps it would become a celebration of that artist and his work, instead of simply entertainment or the artist trying to make enough to survive; sounds a lot like museums, why not more of this? Why not more startup co-working spaces that are social and not isolating and support creativity and connection?
There are of course ecosystems evolving that have more and more of this, culture breaking through systems of control and pressure - I'd like to see the world and cities designed as platforms to facilitate this kind of life - and not only because investment money is heavily funnelling into specific cities.
It's all about distributing resources to get tasks done - governance. Whenever you remove friction then productivity can increase - however if you allow oil to be burned until we pollute and damage our ecosystem to be so unstable as life is threatened then that is bad governance. Determining who gets access to resources needed for different types of creativity will be the interesting piece to figure out..