Collected Data

"Only the driven few can sustain it long enough to claw their way through the mountains of mediocrity."

Charles Hugh Smith;

Keen unapologetically calls the previous arrangement an "industrial meritocracy." He feels this hierarchical meritocracy is being destroyed and there is nothing to replace it.  This will result in a cultural Dark Age where the talented cannot earn a living creating culture. The only avenue left for creators of content that can be copied and distributed digitally (music, digital art, writing) is to find wealthy patrons to support their work.


Is the Web Destroying the Cultural Economy?