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He complains in a very infantile way about "Business types" who only cares about selling an idea, but ultimately he's leaving Medium because it's a bad marketin
by lucasnemeth 11y ago
He complains in a very infantile way about "Business types" who only cares about selling an idea, but ultimately he's leaving Medium because it's a bad marketing decision for him. He says he doesn't want to be associated with medium because it conveys an image of bad content that he does not think it's good for his artwork. He's leaving Medium because of his personal brand.
There's nothing on Medium itself that inhibit the display of the art he wants to share. Medium as an platform, it's enough for his needs. But it is the brand and the marketing aspect of it that he does not like. He is not that different from those "business types". He doesn't see just a platform for sharing content, he sees a brand, and this brand is bringing a negative value to his own brand as an artist.
Besides, this world view of "business types" and "artists" is simplistic and childish, is a persuasive argument to convince us of the legitimacy of his artwork. It is Another marketing strategy: I am the real artist, my artwork is of original legitimacy, different from this capitalist world we live in.
He is obnoxious, loud, and his reasons are contradictory.
Even though he has a point: There's too much self-help on Medium.
- jarcane 11y agoHe's leaving Medium because of his personal brand. Congratulations. You possess exactly the lack of irony necessary to have just proved his point for him. What if I told you there are more ways of looking at the world than market-capitalist terms? That some people value things on whole different axes than what will and will not make them more money?
- lucasnemeth 11y agoYes there is, but to ignore that everything in the world somehow has a market-capistalist value associated to it is naive.
- ForHackernews 11y agoPlease enumerate the market-capitalist value of your mother's love for you. What dollar value would you place on it, and how could we best leverage that resource?
- lucasnemeth 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Family,_Private_Property_and_the_State https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Family,_Priv...
- peterclary 11y agoHow best to leverage that resource? I believe that kidnap and ransom is one traditional answer.
- talmand 11y agoIt would be difficult to nail down a value in general since it will vary from person to person. But to a capitalist market a mother's love of her child is of huge value. Because that child is immediately a part of that market due to the money the mother spends to raise the child. Then the child eventually grows up to enter the market as a consumer to spend money on herself or maybe enter as a producer. Eventually she may have a child of her own to repeat the cycle. Without children a capitalist market eventually dies and a mother's love is one way to help its survival.
- obj-g 11y agoI'm on your side, but I think this is a bad example or poorly stated. Mothers feel all kinds of pressure (from many angles) to, for example, buy their kids the latest toys or coolest clothes as an expression of their love. Etc.
- muraiki 11y agoThe author said in the comments section: "honestly, i didn’t come here to follow people. i came here to build an audience" He also said in the article: "Medium has become overloaded with loud, obnoxious idiots and I am no longer comfortable telling people, ‘Yeah I post on Medium, check me out.’" To me, this sounds like he is concerned about his personal brand / reputation, which he aggregates with the content of Medium as a whole. As such, I think that lucasnemeth's points are reasonable.
- jbmorgado 11y agoBuilding an audience is not the same as building a business. And the fact that most people now-a-days can't see the difference between the two things goes on to prove the all point of the article. Some people just want to create and show it to the world, they are not obsessed in getting millionary over it. But that goes against the "entrepreneurial" culture installed over the last decade where everyone thinks it's a nice thing to actually pass all your time promoting yourself like you are some kind of brand. From what I got from the article, that's exactly what the author of the article is against.