So universal basic income?
Re:Content Is King (1996)
by anoncoward111 on Sunday September 23, 2018 @01:18PM
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Not quite. UBI is millions of people subsidizing everyone.
This is more like 300 fanatical content consumers deciding to give a certain person $5 a month so that they spend as much time as possible producing content.
Re:Content Is King (1996)
by dredmorbius on Sunday September 23, 2018 @01:44PM
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Present global ad spend is on the order of $600 billion, distributed very roughly across the 1 billion wealthiest inhabitants of the world, or approximately the inhabitants of wealthy industrial nations. This works out to roughly $100 per person per year, or about $8.33/mo.
Allocating this as a tax would more than replace all present spending on authors, screenwriters, journalists, and musicians.
See also "1000 True Fans": https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
Re:Content Is King (1996)
by dredmorbius on Sunday September 23, 2018 @01:38PM
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Quite probably something similar to this, yes.
They may be additionally compensated for having created something (or contributing to the creation of something in a collective effort), but it's that stretch between conception and emergence that is most critical, and for which the market, as it stands, has no answer. And cannot have an answer.