Americans seem to overestimate how big Amazon is here in Europe. Most people I know rarely buy anything off Amazon, a couple have Amazon Prime to watch content on, but that’s mostly it.

It’s not capitalism’s fault. The games made by former developers also sell great and are financially viable, the audience also loves them.

What you’re looking at is pure greed.

“It’s all computer”

This is such great news! More ammo to use when trying to convince friends and family to move away from WhatsApp

One of the first movers, so many chat groups are still on there and it’s very difficult to make people move. Many people simply don’t care about privacy, ads, user experience and what not, they just want the convenience of staying in the chat groups they are already in. A shame really.

Sure you can, but then we basically create the same situation as with Ticketmasters, all tickets will then eventually flow through your company and you can change policies again and we will end up with the same problems. With a blockchain solution (doesn’t have to be blockchain for NFT’s though) this platform can be decentralized and self managed, the rules are baked into the protocol, it can only be changed with the majority of voting rights. It basically enables the infrastructure for artists to control ticket sales (and reading at the gate) themselves, without having to use an agency. In your scenario, they would still need an agency.

For you as a user, this example can be interesting: event tickets.

Today, the market is dominated by companies like Ticketmasters and scalpers. Artists have very little control over their ticket price. Here in The Netherlands, some prominent artists started using GET to issue their event tickets on (these are technically NFTs). This gives them the assurance that the audience pays a fair price for the tickets and that scalpers cannot trade it for a higher price. Both the audience and the artist are better of using this technology, than issuing their tickets via Ticketmasters.

https://guts.tickets/ E.g. Dutch article with prominent artists starting sales via GUTS in 2018, and they still use that platform today: https://www.parool.nl/kunst-media/jochem-myjer-en-youp-van-t-hek-pakken-ticketfraude-aan~bc419f5c/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

It’s remains sad that the name NFT is tainted by scams. In business, we start using NFTs more in various other contexts than “art”. NFT technology, without the scam marketplace, has many use cases that we only now start to see benefits from. It’s a very good way to digitize assets and use them in business processes.

Much easier to park AND drive away. I see very few disadvantages really