Tag: Creator Economy
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The Subscription Economy
The shift from acquisition to subscription models has changed more than just how we acquire goods and services—it’s reshaping our relationship with time, identity, and even culture itself. Acquisition, traditionally seen as the ultimate form of possession, is a finite experience. You acquire something, use it, and then move on, satisfied that the need has…
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Selling Shovels to Miners is Always a Winning Strategy
Scratchy black vinyl rasps a forgotten blues dirge as you stare into the roach-mottled motel mirror. Another gig economy hustle, another city bled dry. This time it’s pickaxes, not poems. Steel gleams under the flickering neon, each one a promise, a chimera – fortunes forged in the sweat of strangers or another dead end. The…
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Deadbeats
Deadbeats of the Soul: A Cut-Up Manifesto They crawl out of the fetid alleys of existence, these word-slingers, these paint-drenched maniacs. Society calls them deadbeats, wasters, men and women with holes in their shoes and existential dread clinging to their trench coats like yesterday’s smog. But burrow deeper, past the pawn shop trinkets and ramen…