| silicon said: Businesses that take advantage of user generate content: Youtube!!! The content put on youtube is a cost for anyone putting up the content. There are millions of videos, which is essentially years worth of unpaid work hours. However, if you do get popular enough you can share revenue from advertising. You mentioned journalism. Huffington post is an example of a very low paid labour. The amount authors get paid for each article really deflates the value of a journalist. Online Social Networking sites are a type of unpaid work for solo or small business entrepreneurs. Having an active blog, twitter or whatever is essentially advertising for you. It's essentially unpaid. Most comedians have twitters accounts now in order to grow their followers. They giving away free jokes! |
And this is the concern I am talking about. If you get a flood of free content out there, because they have to, one has to wonder what the future holds. If all the growth resembles what goes on Second Life, have to wonder who makes a living. You will end up people saying, "Well a number of people make six figures doing this!" What number? If this increases to more and more areas, then what is left?
Well, from my end, considering all I have gone through, I happened to have resolved I will just keep producing content, paid or not, until I end up with so little lack of resources I can't produce anything. But I will still, if I have pen and paper, still crank out games until I can't any longer. In this world, you really reevaluate everything and money stops being a motivation to do stuff. If that shift happens, I wonder what happens to those who follow normal economic rules for how supply and demand works.
