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I love the micropayments idea for consumers, but I suspect it would be really hard to get businesses on board, similarly to how music companies lost money when

I love the micropayments idea for consumers, but I suspect it would be really hard to get businesses on board, similarly to how music companies lost money when moving from albums to individual songs, and now streaming.

zackmorris 4y ago
Oh ya, good point. I hadn't considered the long tail problem, how democratizing music production counterintuitively killed the recorded music business so performing onstage is the only real way to make money now. I feel like that problem is only going to spread to all industries, so that the only work that will be compensated is manual labor. Someday we'll have to evaluate if running the rat race is the best use of human potential. Is that premature right now? Will it be in 10 years? I dunno, but I feel like now is the time to be solving this, not in some dystopian future where we spend our entire lives just working to make rent..