3LAU turns to both the streetwear and fine-art industries for inspiration, because both of those worlds invert the mainstream music-industry model of low-margin ubiquity in favor of high-margin scarcity.
As Jarrod Dicker puts it, why subscribe when you can invest? If Substack lets you support creators by subscribing, Mirror lets you own a financial stake in their work.
In my experience so far with the crypto world, a lot of the technical designs are built around the pure financial incentives. And there is a robust culture, around these technologies, otherwise they probably wouldn’t be used by anyone. But they’re really off-chain. And as much as possible, these systems are often designed to get people using these... See more