content needs two things to survive: pricing and distribution

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why does content need to be priced to survive?

I think for most content like a regular cast on Farcaster or something it doesn’t need to necessarily 

the point I was moreso trying to make with the original cast is that finding natural pricing and distribution for content is and has been one of the most challenging, back-and-forth parts of the Internet’s history

especially with the Zoining stuff and @jacob’s piece on natural price discovery for content this kinda stuff has been on my mind more

from a social media perspective i don't necessarily think content needs pricing to survive, although i think(related to Jacob's post) there's an interesting problem to solve around a creator and their fans getting fairly paid on content/earliness to content

from a general media perspective(eg. blogs, youtube channels, traditional media like tv and movies etc) i think the pricing of content matters so much more because the money they make on that content is a recoupment of the investment they had to make to produce that content

i love jacob’s blog post, and i still don’t see how pricing content *makes it* survive

w/r/t distribution - content that gets shared “stays alive” but content that doesn’t get shared dies; this part of your original cast makes sense

it’s the pricing part that, while interesting and new, still doesn’t make sense to me in the context of “content surviving”

I think for most content like a regular cast on Farcaster or something it doesn’t need to necessarily 

the point I was moreso trying to make with the original cast is that finding natural pricing and distribution for content is and has been one of the most challenging, back-and-forth parts of the Internet’s history

especially with the Zoining stuff and @jacob’s piece on natural price discovery for content this kinda stuff has been on my mind more 

https://jacob.energy/free-valuable.html