RE: Everybody’s Gotta Eat… And Other Realities
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Millions of us pay $$ for video games, phones, movies, tech - but ask someone to pay for a song on Spotify or bandcamp, and they slink away. Ask them to tip a blogger. Or subscribe to a news source.
ENTERTAINMENT -- the Hollywood celebrities get millions, but what about the screenwriter who writes the weekly episodes of shows like "Friends" and "Star Trek" - how well were they paid?
Traveling minstrels told stories - and earned their keep.
Court jesters. Clowns.
These days, we want free art and music but we pay billions (collectively) for the tech to listen to it.
Go figure.
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It's pretty messed up.
We don't have cable/network TV anymore... but much of the time to rent a movie to stream is $10-$20, but where does that money actually go? Do the people who made the movie actually see much of it, or does it all in in Netflix and Amazon's coffers?
I see it in a very interesting first hand way these days. When my wife and I take our artwork to a fair, conference or crafts show we frequently come away from a weekend with $1500-$2000 in sales. Put the exact same items up for sale online, and people practically expect them to be free. I can't sell ANYthing online.
And yet, they pay $100s for an NFT of what is little more than the pixellated image of a Windows 3.1 era icon!