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Well in the YT case it seems that you're relying on content creators passion for creation to substitute for paid labour. There's an argument to say a system bu
by mjburgess 7y ago
Well in the YT case it seems that you're relying on content creators passion for creation to substitute for paid labour.
There's an argument to say a system built on such a premise is exploitative.
Either way, I don't really have a strong intuition for how incentives will work here. At the very least, a barrier-to-posting will filter out some bad actors and some good actors.
- api 7y agoI agree there too. I have long criticized Medium as a magazine with unpaid writers. I was specifically speaking to the quality question, not to the other aspects of the platform and its economics and ethics.