this is how it works in a market
seller makes an offer
sales are good or shit
price is adjusted, promotions are made
sales are hopefully better
donation model, so called v4v does not work
you set a price, people feel more secure, and if your price is too low, you get bad sales as well btw
it's a guessing game that you can't cheat around with wishy washy socialist fantasies
Goods in a market are not infinitely reproducible for little to zero cost. Digital content is. V4V is not viable in all use cases. Neither are fixed prices and paywalls.
I think there’s potential in a half way house between v4v and traditional business:
“Low-ball me for the high-quality and hard to replicate work I’ve performed for you and I’ll black-list you for x months.”
That is utilizing negative reinforcement and is punitive in nature. It does not foster positive mutually beneficial relationships between creators and their audience, which is what any creator wants and needs. V4V does.
Good points but most people seem quite content with a punitive system:
Work for this money which ‘only’ loses 2% of its value per year.
most people are happy with what i described a few levels up
you make an offer, people buy, or not... if not, you revise your offer, hopefully you get it right
that's how it works in real life
this other stuff is mushy brained impractical nonsense that has no relation to the market
Again you are describing negotiating price for a finite good. V4V is a monetization approach for digital content, which is not at all finite. Two different problems. Each has their place and each is in fact in use. If it's not to your liking or your preference, then subscriptions and paywalls exist along with all the challenges that come along with those. I'm not understanding your insistence on being rude and obnoxious in your replies, though. That's a little off putting if you're trying to convince anyone that you have good ideas.
"finite good"
bro, there is no good that isn't finite
if it's not finite, it doesn't need economising
if it's infinite in supply then it costs nothing
an example of such a good is air, which for the most part is completely gratis
The economy and life fluctuates. Sometimes we're riding high with excess spending cash and sometimes we can't afford two shillings. If you keep a customer through the hard times you'll have a customer when they're at their best and if they value that relationship they'll reward you for it. And as everyone hits their high at random times, if your product has real value, you'll always have someone rewarding you
And V4V gets you something more also. If someone doesn't have the money to pay, maybe they have skills and time. They can assist with making your product better in exchange for more of it. They can assist with marketing, artwork, etc that you otherwise wouldn't have gotten by trying to hire someone outright and having to over pay yourself.
V4V is the LEAST socialist. It can literally cut out governments altogether. It's the original free market, long before central banking, it circumvents tyrannical taxing. Instead of money, you can offer services, artwork, reciprocating product. Don't just limit your thinking to "they pay me what they want". Even before language we, as animals, exchanged sex for meat, survival for cooperation, shelter for fruit, etc. Then we exchanged chickens for dental work, hides for weapons, and so forth.
