It is an example of how to think outside the constraints of scarcity when dealing with immaterial ”property”.
But if you are looking for individual artists there’s Patreon.
I’m sure people can think of reasons why Patreon does not fulfill some criteria which to them is important for a healthy artistic community. After all, people are imaginative. What I’m encouraging you to do is to use that imagination to think of ways to embrace digital abundance, instead of trying to shoehorn the property rights that humans constructed to distribute physical goods onto something inherently non-physical.
If humanity can not handle the virtually infinite supply of digital goods without artificially enforcing scarcity, what does that say about us?
But if you are looking for individual artists there’s Patreon.
I’m sure people can think of reasons why Patreon does not fulfill some criteria which to them is important for a healthy artistic community. After all, people are imaginative. What I’m encouraging you to do is to use that imagination to think of ways to embrace digital abundance, instead of trying to shoehorn the property rights that humans constructed to distribute physical goods onto something inherently non-physical.
If humanity can not handle the virtually infinite supply of digital goods without artificially enforcing scarcity, what does that say about us?