There are two, hot tools used by capitalism right now: exclusivity and subscription.<\/p>\n
Exclusivity<\/strong> works for a while, until it doesn\u2019t. If you\u2019re successful or wildly successful with exclusive content, people will either copy, steal or offer more for said exclusivity. It doesn\u2019t scale at all. We see this a lot in video games these days; games are far too expensive to make to be exclusive to one platform. It goes back to simple economics: it is good to sell something to a lot of people, rather than less.<\/p>\n Subscription<\/strong> sounds like the ultimate capitalist tool: you will pay for the rest of your life with contract renewals (adding more and more bullet points, mmhmm). But subscription hits two very hard obstacles. First, on the consumer side: we can\u2019t subscribe to everything, that\u2019s unsustainable as hell! I saw the other day Mercedes talking about $1200 annual subscription to get software improvements on electric vehicles, what kind of landlord BS is that? Unsustainable.<\/p>\n But the part that most people forget about subscription that really sucks, is on the producer side: you need to produce quality, constantly. You can\u2019t never rest. You have to<\/em> get that content out there (otherwise you lose income instantly), and that\u2019s massive anxiety. The relationship between producer and customer becomes quite abusive. I know Patreon creators feel me on that one. It doesn\u2019t work well with intellectual and creative work, which is often born from accidents and progress through iteration. So you start adding water to your lemonade and now people are resentful and either give you nasty feedback, leave, or both.<\/p>\n Conclusion: UBI, baby! Because nothing else works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are two, hot tools used by capitalism right now: exclusivity and subscription. Exclusivity works for a while, until it doesn\u2019t. If you\u2019re successful or wildly successful with exclusive content, people will either copy, steal or offer more for said exclusivity. It doesn\u2019t scale at all. We see this a lot in video games these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}