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I hope you college groupies are paying attention. This goes along well, too, with what should have become obvious with Agony and Ecstasy.
And here’s the thing: Most of the manual labor still being done in our economy seems to be of the kind that’s hard to automate. Notably, with production workers in manufacturing down to about 6 percent of U.S. employment, there aren’t many assembly-line jobs left to lose. Meanwhile, quite a lot of white-collar work currently carried out by well-educated, relatively well-paid workers may soon be computerized. Roombas are cute, but robot janitors are a long way off; computerized legal research and computer-aided medical diagnosis are already here.
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Thanks, Quad, though not sure how many of us are left to benefit from it. qq.
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Modern monetization
Modern monetization
It occurred to me today, while reading this interview with PvP’s Scott Kurtz that all of the micro transaction payment models that are becoming so popular these days are really the same version of how web comic artists are surviving.
That is, they monetize their biggest fans, rather than the content itself. And it really works and it’s not unpalatable at all.
So that makes me wonder what other models there are that I’ve missed. Sporting team merchandise, perhaps? They must make a percentage of the money made from tickets sold, but there’s a much larger population that watches the games on television for free. Hm.
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Absolutely fascinating development. And terrifying all at the same time. The micro-transactions world scares the crap out of me, srsly.
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