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Very good read. It’s a good time but still a hard time to be an artist but as with the gatekeeper, few reach that meteoric rise. On the other hand, perhaps a lot more people have can make a decent living being their own brand and boss.

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I agree, Chevanne. Juggling both tasks is quite a challenge, and I wish there are systems in the future to ease this setup. But I make the argument exactly as per your last line, that it can be easier to make a decent living being your own boss, and that our notion of success is tied to the rat-race of earlier times (i.e. needing to be the 'best').

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When I see people with no former interest in art suddenly hawking AI-generated "art" as NFTs, it all seems like a get-rich-quick scheme that everyone is buying into. That bubble will surely burst, but I hope that some realistic uses for it come to pass, like micropayments to "average" artists/writers/musicians.

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It is certainly a speculative bubble. But I think it will leave behind lots of interesting use-cases at regular-people prices.

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