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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8418913" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>I agree there are no numbers. But let's suppose that in the US there are 100,000 people who might be interested in something RPG-ish who currently aren't connected to the market. And suppose they are willing to spend $10 a year each. That's $1m per year that RPG creators aren't getting access to - enough to support 10 or more creators full time, perhaps, depending on living standards?</p><p></p><p>I agree with your post upthread about the effects of that expenditure on other markets. From an egalitarian point of view the ideal would be to somehow extract that $1m from Hasbro, Disney and allied revenues. But I don't think that market-matching can directly do that - though perhaps it might generate some indirect downward pressure on the price of Disney and Hasbro products. (Though whether that would cut their profits or just lead to liquidation and reallocation of the capital to some other venture is a further question - it's very hard to disentangle these local questions of economic justice from the big questions of who controls most of the assets in our societies.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8418913, member: 42582"] I agree there are no numbers. But let's suppose that in the US there are 100,000 people who might be interested in something RPG-ish who currently aren't connected to the market. And suppose they are willing to spend $10 a year each. That's $1m per year that RPG creators aren't getting access to - enough to support 10 or more creators full time, perhaps, depending on living standards? I agree with your post upthread about the effects of that expenditure on other markets. From an egalitarian point of view the ideal would be to somehow extract that $1m from Hasbro, Disney and allied revenues. But I don't think that market-matching can directly do that - though perhaps it might generate some indirect downward pressure on the price of Disney and Hasbro products. (Though whether that would cut their profits or just lead to liquidation and reallocation of the capital to some other venture is a further question - it's very hard to disentangle these local questions of economic justice from the big questions of who controls most of the assets in our societies.) [/QUOTE]
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