I really like the idea, but because your name for it starts with "Universal" I had an immediate negative reaction to it, and I support the idea of a Universal Basic Income!
Seems to me you are really arguing or a business policy to be adopted by platform that use content creators to offer them a minimum monthly stipend, aka a "Minimum Monthly Platform Stipend?"
I could imagine Fox News and every other Conservative media outlet, if they hear about it "Universal Creative Income", could spend months demonizing it without ever correctly representing what it actually is. Something to consider if you really want this idea to take off.
Could just be the masterstroke a platform needs to push ahead. A platform that has strong cash flows in place can fund this model and give their creators more space to take risk on their work.
That could result in a big win for creator and platform with the right bets.
My takeaway is just a feeling / mostly a fear... and it's that I don't want more "content creation" as much as I'd want to see real meaningful/thought-provoking art. The content being created seems to have no connection to the historical conversation. It seems to be eating its tail. But hey, it worked for Ayn Rand!
Europe has put a lot of money into the arts and has creative stipends for music venues to pay touring bands and encourage culture. I wonder where we could find some numbers or feedback on that.
This was a really great article Li. I feel like the fractionalized NFT idea to fund emerging artists is on the very cusp of happening. Check out the work being done to allow writers to create NFTs at http://www.litether.com and look at the amazing art this is being born through the booming crypto economy allowing innovators and creatives to focus on what they love instead of earning a paycheck. Thank you.
There is a way to charge for non-excludable, non-rivalrous content (as you allude to) – patronship, tipjars/PWYW, and other voluntary donations -- and the FairPay framework suggests ways to expand on that. The thesis is that artificial scarcity is artificial, and the real way to sustain such goods is to pay for future creation, The problem, of course, is getting patrons to pay. But increasing numbers are willing, if the value proposition is framed right and appeals to fairness are effective and/or enforced. My article in Inc, on the creator/passion economy expands on this (https://www.inc.com/richard-reisman/covid-19-future-of-passion-economy.html), and much more is at FairPayZone.com. Entrepreneurs could build platforms to make this easy for all creators.
i love so much of this, but, i'm unsure of the manifestations; more to come, for sure.
for the platform itself, i think a federated group of platforms makes more sense to me, instead of a singular. maybe.
Great point. Would love to see a federation of platforms work together to make this happen (however unlikely)
just here to say that i appreciate your work so much! thank you for this informative piece 🙌🏽
I really like the idea, but because your name for it starts with "Universal" I had an immediate negative reaction to it, and I support the idea of a Universal Basic Income!
Seems to me you are really arguing or a business policy to be adopted by platform that use content creators to offer them a minimum monthly stipend, aka a "Minimum Monthly Platform Stipend?"
I could imagine Fox News and every other Conservative media outlet, if they hear about it "Universal Creative Income", could spend months demonizing it without ever correctly representing what it actually is. Something to consider if you really want this idea to take off.
#jmtcw.
I felt the same way. I snoozed it 10 times - dreading the read. But - the idea is nothing new. The title just rubs me the wrong way for some reason!
This is a masterpiece!
Could just be the masterstroke a platform needs to push ahead. A platform that has strong cash flows in place can fund this model and give their creators more space to take risk on their work.
That could result in a big win for creator and platform with the right bets.
Being an ex artist myself was one of the many reason we created Freedom Universal Bank to pay all our depositors a UBI. Launcing Q2 2022
My takeaway is just a feeling / mostly a fear... and it's that I don't want more "content creation" as much as I'd want to see real meaningful/thought-provoking art. The content being created seems to have no connection to the historical conversation. It seems to be eating its tail. But hey, it worked for Ayn Rand!
Europe has put a lot of money into the arts and has creative stipends for music venues to pay touring bands and encourage culture. I wonder where we could find some numbers or feedback on that.
This was great! Thank you for taking the time to write it. I'm sharing it with my team.
from a decade or so ago. and has been my issue with tech biz since the mid 90s when i saw the changes happening around ownership and control . https://choosecreativecommerce.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/choose-creative-commerce-c3/
This was a really great article Li. I feel like the fractionalized NFT idea to fund emerging artists is on the very cusp of happening. Check out the work being done to allow writers to create NFTs at http://www.litether.com and look at the amazing art this is being born through the booming crypto economy allowing innovators and creatives to focus on what they love instead of earning a paycheck. Thank you.
Like the opportunity to fund the long-tail creators who are ignored. Blerp is building an audio-platform to help creators engage and monetize via soundbites, details - https://curiousexpeditions.substack.com/p/the-future-of-sound-bites
I like it Li's , good summary work as always. Excellent work. 🚀 Thank you for this informative piece.
There is a way to charge for non-excludable, non-rivalrous content (as you allude to) – patronship, tipjars/PWYW, and other voluntary donations -- and the FairPay framework suggests ways to expand on that. The thesis is that artificial scarcity is artificial, and the real way to sustain such goods is to pay for future creation, The problem, of course, is getting patrons to pay. But increasing numbers are willing, if the value proposition is framed right and appeals to fairness are effective and/or enforced. My article in Inc, on the creator/passion economy expands on this (https://www.inc.com/richard-reisman/covid-19-future-of-passion-economy.html), and much more is at FairPayZone.com. Entrepreneurs could build platforms to make this easy for all creators.
It seems that in many ways this is already happening with patreon and things like that too.