>>9156
You will not go anywhere with the idea that artist is the same as a plumber because this is totally wrong. an artist is exactly a beggar because nobody really needs his services, he gets paid not because of what he does but because of how he presents himself.

If you compare artist with the plumber you are not gonna hire 20 plumbers to fix your toilet while in case or artists you will happily download works of every artist on earth and possibly find everyone worth something. What matters here is what artists will manage to grab your attention.

also applying same rules to artists as to craftsmen is a bad idea, because if some artist is making $10000 a month giving him extra 5$ will not do anything useful for his productivity or motivation, but giving those same 5$ to the beginner artist who is making 10$ a month will be a huge change. and remember our goal is to distribute money in the way to maximize the amount of content.

also, I disagree that "customer" will spend the same on donations as he spends on paywalled content unless that guy is so filthy rich that money is no issue at all. There is no real limit on the amount of content you want to get so, either way, you will run out of money and you will be forced to choose. and any rational person who cares about finances will spend money on paywalled content while giving nothing or very little to the artists who give stuff for free.
A rational person will not make a decision to forfeit some content he wants just because he wants to donate that money to someone else.
in our topic there cant be such things as "similar product". Every artist is selling unique and exclusive content not available anywhere else so it is by definition a monopoly.
If you want to watch "the Game of thrones" you cant choose from whom you will buy it.



And yes you probably are blind if you don't see "customers". go on parteon.com and look around for how many people are paying money to free and paywalled content and what kind of money people are making there.
So if you don't see any of that you may be really blind


If you are complaining about the lack of customers for guro or other niche content, too bad, there are not that many people interested in that. If you work on that topic you will lack not only customers but even plain fans. It is even hard to find any place where I can post my work without getting banned.