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Well when I was young I spent about $1k/year on little thingamajigs called cd's. That was perhaps "stupid" in a pure economic sense but I did it. And if I were young these days I can't say I wouldn't give that amount to some random "content creator" who could give me the same joy as we 80's kids got from sitting quiet and listening actively to music albums from beginning to end.

But me now is like "why the hell would I give that kind of money to some rando on the internet that stream games?". My patreon career is limited at giving a podcast creator $10/month and that was hard to justify for myself.



Spending 1k per years on cd's was sponsoring what, 50 different creators @20 each? Not the same thing.


Sponsoring 50 record labels


Correct, but he had no choice about that in the vinyl/audio cd era. And possibly didn't even realize it.

Still, he didn't give all his 1k to the same artist. Mainly because most artist launch at most 1 new album per year?




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