making it as an artist
What happened to journalism in the 21st century is, in many ways, the story of the conflict between two utopian values: Information wants to be free and Writers should be paid .
Celine Nguyen • we've created a society where artists can't make any money
we've created a society where artists can't make any money
personalcanon.compathways to making art. even ted chiang still does day job work….and the “free internet” has created bad incentives for art to thrive
So there's a possibility that this world becomes an isolated bubble of its own, with a few people rising to the top in the bubble and the others reading them. I'm going on a limb here, but I'm saying the artistic world is becoming less democratic, and with the rewards not being proportional to the risk, fewer people have the safety net or fanatical... See more