The System Is Broken. You Still Have Power.

Unpublished by Amie McNee and James Winestock

Jul 8, 202600:18:33Arts

Is the problem systemic, or individual? In this episode, we sit with the messy middle. Creative industries are full of scarcity, gatekeeping, bad incentives, exploitation, and cooked economics. But if we only talk about...

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