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Zero marginal cost structure of the internet has conditioned everyone to thinking digital goods should be free. Remember that anti piracy ad with "you wouldnt d

• inglor_cz 3y ago
  "of course I would download a car if I could" LOL at that, you're right. When it comes to content online, we live in an era of total abundance. This is the sort of abundance that used to be considered utopian. You will literally never run out of excellent texts for free, a mere human just cannot read them fast enough. Same with videos, games etc. But that abundance has significant downsides for the people who create all that content. Competing with free stuff is a task for Sisyphos.
  • CMCDragonkai 3y ago
    And even more abundance is coming with the advent of generative AI. The problem now isn't scarcity of content. It's signal vs noise. As a consumer of content what we want is content specifically relevant and valuable to us, but there is too much noise most of the time. As a producer of content we want to is to be able to capture some of that value. For example if there was a source of content that have me an advantage in some domain area I work on, I would absolutely pay for it. (And in fact I do, like chatgpt plus). For entertainment content there's probably enough free stuff that most people don't care to pay.
• joquarky 3y ago
  It didn't condition us, it reminded us that intellectual property is a social abstraction that flows against nature