Middleman for transferring money directly from audiences to artists also demands money from spying on everyone involved.
Fuck everyone who ever sneered ‘but how will they make money?’ when I told them advertising shits in your brain. Pateron literally handles money. Money is their only form of business. They’re just PayPal without the constant betrayal. They… make… nothing. And yet no amount of money will ever be enough, if there’s some other skeezy bullshit they can pull on all the people they’ve roped in.
This is actual enshittification. This is what Doctorow was talking about, in the first place. Having established a critical mass of clients and users, the service is now free to fuck both groups over, as hard as possible, until a few assholes at the top parachute away from the burning wreckage, hundred-dollar bills fluttering out behind them.
Middleman for transferring money directly from audiences to artists also demands money from spying on everyone involved.
Fuck everyone who ever sneered ‘but how will they make money?’ when I told them advertising shits in your brain. Pateron literally handles money. Money is their only form of business. They’re just PayPal without the constant betrayal. They… make… nothing. And yet no amount of money will ever be enough, if there’s some other skeezy bullshit they can pull on all the people they’ve roped in.
This is actual enshittification. This is what Doctorow was talking about, in the first place. Having established a critical mass of clients and users, the service is now free to fuck both groups over, as hard as possible, until a few assholes at the top parachute away from the burning wreckage, hundred-dollar bills fluttering out behind them.