Or…art and literature enter a new two-tiered era with artistic and literary works made by humans, with other humans as witnesses to some or all of the process, becoming extreme-premium-items alongside AI-generated works, which are likely to become the fare of mainstream society, if the current wave continues unabated.
Consider: “Reserve requirements are a tool used by the central bank to increase or decrease the money supply in the economy and influence interest rates. Reserve requirements are currently set at ZERO as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
ref: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/requiredreserves.asp
What you said at the end deeply resonated with me. I made a similar decision regarding music years ago and since giving up all aspirations of commercial success from music, the quality of what I am able to create has blossomed - and then tanks again the moment I so much as THINK of making a track to put up for sale.
So I came to the similar conclusion of playing only for myself and my family, and I am much happier with music as a result.
I recommend to anyone working on talent-development to try, the next time inspiration strikes, creating your next piece of art for an audience of one (Self) and see what happens. The results may surprise you.
All I can say is that it must take alot of confidence, for lack of a better term, to look at what time the sun goes down and to decide that you are going to change that.
I would say that a primary difference is the investment runway the successful players have enjoyed. Some of them are still not objectively profitable to this day, but their massive topline revenues, scales of operations, and levels of name recognition makes many of them remain attractive investment targets nevertheless.
Comcast has been doing this for years. And unless you get your own modem, theirs tend to turn the feature back on (even if you turn it off) automatically at various intervals.
Are MSP’s now non-compliant, I wonder…