Very few creator platforms seem to have learned this lesson. They’re all about a subtle upsell, with a small, tasteful button tucked neatly into some unobtrusive corner of the user interface. This is a missed opportunity: Platforms need to find elegant ways to cause fans to actually encounter pitches from creators.
It’s also hard to imagine the US successfully regulating new structures like DAOs. Even the right wing of the Democratic Party has turned on the latest nominee for Comptroller of the Currency despite her being far from a radical when it comes to regulating financial oligarchs. The political paralysis the US state is experiencing shows no signs of a... See more
The platform economy as it is currently constituted—highly centralized, highly mediated, with critical decisions made by a select few—risks replicating the same problems that have led to widespread burnout, financial precarity, and erosion of workers’ rights in the traditional economy.