Intimacy

The Intimacy Economy

The T-Shirt Economy ended somewhere bleak and mostly correct. The artifact created by the artist is going free, the value is migrating to identity and tribe, and the surviving model is brand-around-art: become a person worth following, and let the work be the marketing for the merch. I think all of that is real. I’m also a horrible salesman, so I’m not thrilled with the realization.