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For me, the mint-fee is too low at the moment. I think the already low earlier Zora fee was great. Not as much as a latte so affordable, but still enough to engrain the idea that art has value into the minds of the wider public. Now we're back to Web2 mind-set of content is free. That's not a good thing.

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I think this is a very important point. It ingrains the idea that art has no worth. I understand that the price is based on a plan to have art more accessible to the masses that we all hope will one day join in but why is it always artists that have to pay this price? Everyone else involved gets their cut while artists have to play along in hopes of a payday some time in the future.

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I’m not selling my photos for 30 cents. I’m arguably one of the best macro photographers in the world. So where do we go from here?

Would you still not sell it for $0.35 if 100K people wanted to get your photo?

No, I don't think so, tbh. I have deliberately chosen what I call the abundance model: low price, higher volume. A consumable that people still want in their wallet. But that also has to do with collector groups and maybe a heritage of fine art culture. I'm not in the fine art business, and if you want to make it in the art as collectible business, you have to make fine art type stuff. 

Where the difference of interpretation may lie, though, is that I am not a Zora app user (I don't have an iPhone). So, for me, nothing has changed, apart from the reward I get. And I am not treating it as a consumable. For things like moshicam, I can totally understand that model. Low effort, instagram like creations, consumed by doom-scrollers. But to me, Zora is not that. It's still the website where I have my market stall with my poems that I want to push for an affordable price that helps me pay my bills and also puts bread on the table of the market location owner.

This consumable theory is really trashing that model.

I think we're talking about two different things; art as a collectible & art as a consumable; collectible = higher value but low supply & consumable = low value but high supply. Both have humongous potential in a digital economy. 

Base is prime to be the leader in the art-as-consumable product because of low transaction fees & less friction.

I appreciate the theory around this Sunny, but it is not becoming practice. For me at least. For now, the fact that Zora went with that 35 cent meta means my meager income on Zora is slashed even further. And to earn the same, I have to work much harder.

And... 30 cent is dangerously close to 0 when it comes to how people experience the value of art. With the price of a latte, it's already much more impactful in terms of changing that aspect, changing the idea that art has value.

That’s what keeps me going too. Just felt like whinging about it today. After the whole wallpaper thing, I got frustrated. I’ve been a mostly unpaid intern for way too long.

- Academics who peer review articles
- Unpaid internships/apprenticeships
- Free first service is a common tool for plenty of businesses to demonstrate value

The root of it is that art is a luxury purchase & a minuscule amount of humanity is in the position to splurge on it (median worldwide daily wage is ~$10 and that’s including the west).

Unlike Van Gogh, artists in web3 have all the tools at their disposal today to make real money from their art if they can make it happen. 

Imagine it being 100x where it is today. Thats when it’ll all make sense and that’s what keeps me going.

I have more to say.. what other profession is expected to give of their time, effort and talent freely without being paid until their work is deemed to be of value? Sure, there are a few artists that make money now but have we really flipped the script? Van Gogh died poor but now his works are sold for millions. Has the art world changed since then or are the majority of us set for the same fate?

Yeah that’s fair. Being early isn’t easy. I’ll still mint and buy these cheaper pieces but it’s such a frustrating position to be in and so frustrating to see so many other artists struggling. Some days it’s good to vent about it even if there’s no good solution yet.

It’s a scale problem (for now) & definitely does not suit everyone. 

Artists in web3 today are pioneers and by definition they earn the most disproportionate rewards and have to pay a disproportionate price as well. It’s all art of the package of being early. 

Having said that, class of 2020s will be remembered for what they did or did not do to pave the way for the next generation of artists.

Yes but until then, what do we do?  I’m fully supportive of the idea of that coming but until then artists need to give work away. It’s a tricky position to be in. I love Rodeo but I’m particular about what I mint on there.