Discussion
Never got V4V
Just charge for your goods and services. Why are you trying to reinvent the wheel
Don’t expect me to donate you sats as the podcast is playing. Charge me X number of sats to listen to the podcast. Blows my mind
In the case of scarce goods and services/time, then yes I agree, charge what it's worth within a given market. But V4V has a place. Understanding what it is and where it works requires also understanding what it isn't. One thing it isn't is a donation. Donations are gifts with nothing expected in return. V4V is an alternative approach attempting to monetize infinitely reproducible (aka, non-scarce) digital content. It is a transaction for having received something that added value to your day in some way. It's similar to a tip. There are pros and cons to various approaches -- subscriptions/paywalls vs. V4V vs. ad-supported, and so on -- and I don't think it has to be all or nothing.
It's almost like "value" (your actually taking about price) is derivatived from scarcity.
I have a different view of this...
Everything in life is tradeoffs
Information may want to be free, but it doesn't mean that it's not frictionless as a phenomenon. In order to find its best use, information needs money, just like everything else.
That leads me to think that maybe proponents of V4V can be correct in their statements, but V4V isn't necessarily the most important thing to take into consideration in the case of monetization
Oof
