Reading this post by Andy Bell was an energizing moment of my week thus far. It's where my mind's at, and where I would want to build an agency towards (just haven't been successful on that front yet).
The final few grafs are something that resonated.
- How can we fund it? Rudy Fraser is funding BlackSky with Open Collective (same as Andy suggests below; was the first time I had discovered the platform). The distributed funding model that's less like Kickstarter but more open, micro-patron style seems like it'd work great.
I’m thinking down a different path. A more distributed path, I guess. My thought is we set up an Open Collective (or alternative, transparent platform) and fund this work from the community. That could be individuals and it could be companies that believe in progressive political movements, like the ones we want to produce work for.
The return? Progressive movements get an outstanding web presence and the web community gets genuine real world education as we design and build these web presences in the open.
And so much, this:
At the end of the day, all I want is to live comfortably and support my family. The Set team are exactly the same. We’re not looking to Get Loaded™ and buy extremely tasteless Lamborghinis. We’ve all being doing this thing forever — 50+ years combined — and we’re at the point in our careers where we want our work to do as much good as possible, across the board.
URL: https://bell.bz/im-getting-fed-up-of-making-the-rich-richer/