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by mkartic
4020 days ago
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Netflix - Essentially a paywall for great CONTENT. You subscribe to their service with regular payments. Youtube - Ads for free content. Both seem to be working just fine as far as revenue is concerned. Can you elaborate on why you find only sites like SE or GH "content"? What's your definition? Are you suggesting entertainment doesn't have a value of its own? |
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Yes, exactly.
Netflix is paywall for entertainment. Youtube does have some educational content. Some of it generates revenue from ads. Although those who actually do create educational content, do it for self expression or as a token to return to community.
Just another day there was a top ranking comment about Apple's music streaming service. The TL;DR was that there are millions of great musicians who do not care about profit, they care about music.
I think art is about self expression, not means to making money. Somehow it is much more prominent in tech community with open source and bunch of free information. The information that is actually valuable.
Of course we do have day jobs, but there we get paid for implementing something that people actually need.
I realize this is probably a unusual worldview, but perhaps we are too much entertained and not enough educated?