The thing is, I think you could be right AND there might be an interesting conversation to be had about Amanda Palmer's business model. There does seem to be a

The thing is, I think you could be right AND there might be an interesting conversation to be had about Amanda Palmer's business model. There does seem to be a thing on the internet where women who divert from the norm get cut down much more viciously than a man would. I think this might be an interesting conversation to have and I've no idea what the fix might be other than time and generational change (which I think is coming). However, I think there is also a discussion to be had about how we fund the digital age, because it really isn't clear how artists will get paid in future. And a lot of the attempts so far do look like begging. My own view is that there is something awkward in the use of unpaid labour as a business model, but I'm not sure what else can be done. Eventually, the internet looks like it will trend towards to free access for everyone to all media at all times. My personal lack of comfort is that all the payment models I've seen so far decouple the product from the person. To some degree I would suggest that in the past we've paid for good product, but in the future we're increasingly asked to pay for a good person. The difficulty is that this favours the extrovert publicists over the quiet artists and I wish there was some way it might look like this latter group had a future, too.