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The impact of this re-shift towards patronage on culture in the world of the 1% is an exercise left to the reader.
by tedks 12y ago
The impact of this re-shift towards patronage on culture in the world of the 1% is an exercise left to the reader.
- ticviking 12y agoI am under the impression that most of the people making a career in this market are essentially chasing the long tail rather than providing goods and services to the %1.
- tedks 12y agoThis is irrelevant in the 1%'s endgame, where everyone but them is living either at subsistence or better yet in debt. Even if you try to go for a long tail by way of say Kickstarter, the people who buy your top-tiers are going to dominate your focus.
- deciplex 12y agoThis is more like distributed patronage, contrasted with the more old-school type, IMO. I don't see Patreon being dominated by billionaires currently. If you think this is going to lead to a status quo where the elites dominate our culture, you should probably leave off with more than an "exercise for the reader", because your point definitely isn't self-evident at all. Especially if you think it's going to be worse than when media distribution and funding was centralized under TV, movie studios, radio, publishers, etc.