It depends on the art market. Certainly a lot of forces are at work conspiring to push the marginal value of digital content towards zero, but there are some di

It depends on the art market. Certainly a lot of forces are at work conspiring to push the marginal value of digital content towards zero, but there are some digital art markets that aren't at zero or at least aren't stuck at zero over longer terms. There was a joke I saw the other day on Mastodon that "if NFTs actually worked as promised then the furries would have invented them years ago". While an amusing joke, it's also one of those things with buried bits of truth that stick out like wisdom. The furry commission markets have generally seemed to be stable over the life of the internet, the prices haven't converged to zero, and generally there seems to be respect for the labor costs of the artists in that market. Obviously a lot of other art markets wish they were that stable, and it's a weird benchmark (thus the humor to it), but it's still a benchmark.