Re: [microsound] [OT] Glut of new cds of just no money to spend?

[john saylor <js@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi

( 04.11.19 21:48 +0000 ) Phil Thomson:
> how does free culture acquire value?

how does *culture* acquire value? can it be marketed to you?

what does it mean for something to have an acknowledged value as part of
a given culture?

> If free culture is based on abundance as opposed to scarcity, then 
> how do we attribute value to something that is so plentiful when we are so 
> used to valuing what is scarce *because* it is scarce?

i don't think free culture is based on abundance. i can see how it seems
that way, as one part of it emphasizes an exchange without payment
[sharing] as an important interaction between people. and so, if you
don't have to pay for something, and you like it, or like the person
making it, or have some kind of an axe to grind, or one of ten thousand
other reasons; you can share it with other people as well. and we have
so many ways to duplicate all kinds of information very rapidly. so this
gets an abundance of stuff out there- because people like to make
culture and share it and talk about it [if anyone else is interested].

however, i don't think the economic models of 'supply and demand'
[abundance and scarcity] translate to culture very well. i think this
model distorts what happens with culture [you understand something about
being alive] and reduces it to a consummer/producer relationship that
takes all the best parts out of it.

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