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The Passion Economy and the Future of Work

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Re: The Passion Economy and the Future of Work

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If you born poor/ugly/whatever doesn't mean you just give up, whatever state you are in you have to keep searching for it. Sure its can be hard, but there is nothing better you can do other than just keep trying.

Sometimes you worked really hard and had a great strategy and your multi-year plan is starting to come together. All the pieces are snapping into place one after the other and you feel a great sense of progress... but then, at the last minute, it all falls apart based on some random freak incident that doesn't make sense and nobody could have predicted. That's the reality of capitalism. The successful outliers are so…

Of course that could happen, if that happen you just have to try again, thats the only thing can do other than stop trying and die.

Re: The Passion Economy and the Future of Work

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They need to talk about the network effect, and where the power is centered here. Hint - its not with the content creators, nor the users. Its the platform. Its the rent-seeking behavior on the part of the platforms that causes every entry in this space to rise when there's investment money, and then fall when they have to start making the money back and implement creator and user unfriendly mechanisms. Then the cont…

The article touches on your point by differentiating between SaaS products vs. marketplaces. It sounds like you're in favor of SaaS over marketplaces.
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