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Re:Monetizing hobbies by agumonkey on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:22AM (#31133662)
> All three times it has become lucrative, but none of them are hobbies any more.

I regularly wonder how to balance the intrinsic pleasure with extrinsic value. I keep thinking that people could meet on the point where both find great pleasure in this venture. Something rare in the current economy it seems.

Re:Monetizing hobbies by kqr on Saturday April 23, 2022 @09:41AM (#31134178)
It's hard because extrinsic motivation kills intrinsic motivation (see Drive for some of the behavioural science here). Once you start putting a monetary reward on things, people in general lose the interest in doing them for their own sake.

So I think for this to work, you have to go full collectivist: gather up a bunch of people interested in different things, produce stuff for each other and divide equally with no money being involved in the transaction.

Re:Monetizing hobbies by bombcar on Saturday April 23, 2022 @09:31AM (#31134097)
One way to do it have the hobby be something that’s entirely yours (you carve intricate models of Vietnamese railway cays say) and someone else sells them, almost without any communication as to “what is selling etc”.

Never take orders.

Re:Monetizing hobbies by agumonkey on Saturday April 23, 2022 @09:45AM (#31134217)
kinda like agents and artists ?
Re:Monetizing hobbies by bombcar on Saturday April 23, 2022 @10:24AM (#31134527)
The hard part is finding an agent who will not try to convince you to do things to increase profits.

But yes, some artists have famously gone through intermediaries such that there isn’t a feedback loop possible.