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Do you work for free? If so - if you are a volunteer and do not take state aid or use funds from your inheritance - then your position is defensible. If not, t
by sgt101 3y ago
Do you work for free? If so - if you are a volunteer and do not take state aid or use funds from your inheritance - then your position is defensible.
If not, then I invite you to look at the huge attrition of journalism jobs in the UK and the USA. Local newsrooms have been destroyed by the web and national newsrooms have been gutted.
Folks that create content should be allowed to monetize content - in exactly the same way that I am allowed to monetize the work I do.
- pksebben 3y agoThey are currently allowed to do so, and this attrition has happened without a proliferation of LLMs. This feels like an oranges-apples kinda argument. The thing that's destroying journalism is the current framework for monetizing and how utterly inadequate it is - that, and the lack of a robust middle class; the primary consumer of news. It's easy to point at tech and say that it's what changed so it's the problem - but just like dirt roads were better for horses, sometimes it's the existing structures that need to change. Our ownership model is lost in the modern era and badly needs revisiting.