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Worth a repost here: http://thetrichordist.com/2012/04/15/meet-the-new-boss-worse-than-the-old-boss-full-post/ http://thetrichordist.com/2012/04/15/meet-the-ne
by api 13y ago
Worth a repost here:
http://thetrichordist.com/2012/04/15/meet-the-new-boss-worse-than-the-old-boss-full-post/ http://thetrichordist.com/2012/04/15/meet-the-new-boss-worse...
So far I haven't heard a good answer as to how artists, musicians, and other creators will get paid in this new world.
Usually people just toss out buzzwords like "micropayments," which are "magic happens here" answers, or are ignorant of the economics of the industry. That talk explains it well.
- davidgerard 13y agoThe answer is "as badly as they were before". Most musicians never got paid, ever; Lowery's articles are nostalgia of a no-longer privileged class for their place in the old Stalinism.
- api 13y agoI think his point is that in the past, most musicians never got paid. Now no musicians ever get paid. We've traded a horrible, unequal, corrupt system for compensating artists for no system for compensating artists.
- qu4z-2 13y ago"Compensate" always seems like an odd word to use for paying someone to do what they presumably enjoy. To me "compensate" primarily means giving someone money/something in exchange for loss or inconvenience you've caused them. Is that not the meaning you're using? Personally, I suggest "pay", as in "no system for paying artists".