I Have Seen The Future And It Kind Of Made Me Shudder

Here. Not comics, but I can totally see this happening in comics, like, tomorrow, and in some ways I'm sure it happens all the time. The main problem I have with this stunt -- beyond the unpleasantness that is basically offering the awesomeness of being associated with someone as a payment when other actors on that same project are taking money rather than awesomeness showers as a reward -- is the same problem I have with a lot of on-line culture projects that use "free," including those in comics: its ultimate success depends on leveraging future paying work from a market that can't help but be diminished by the aggregation of such ploys. This seems very, very different to me than putting one's dues in or simply working a free job or a job that doesn't pay very well, things freelancers routinely do.
 
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