personal, social, and emotional freedom—when it becomes an ultimate end—absolutely sucks. It leads to a random, busy life with no discernible direction, no firm foundation, and in which, as Marx put it, all that’s solid melts to air. It turns out that freedom isn’t an ocean you want to spend your life in. Freedom is a river you want to get across s... See more
Katie: Centralized and decentralized models can coexist. There is a big class of consumers who might want to use a marketplace like OpenSea. In exchange for the take rate, you get discovery, reliability, etc... You will see decentralized marketplaces for NFTs as well.
Patreon’s strongest pitch is that it’s independent from the major tech platforms. By now, every creator has been burned by the algorithmic feed or knows someone who has.