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Breaking free from big tech and big content with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin

Decoder with Nilay Patel

CHAPTER

Don't Quit Your Day Job

I think that in the arts, labor, world, irrespective of monopoly or not monopoly, it's always only ever been a tiny fraction of the people who wanted to make art who found a professional living doing it. The chances for success are so narrow and so few and far between that you have to keep plugging in ways that don't make any sense. For me, honestly, with a lot of my artist friends, I don't know how they do keep their heads up. But for the ones who are more successful at it, aside from everything that Corey said, I think it's around connection and community.

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