Signal Boost: Money and Networks

Lots of interesting comments on this post fromcesperanza on Money and Networks. The discourse around how it was "back in the day" gets more and more layered the farther we get from whenever that day was.

There's something here about transformative fandom and true gift economies as non-alienated labor and it's making me want to read the Marxist analyses of fandom that I'm pretty sure don't exist.