Patreon and Black Lives MatteršŸ—½

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7 min readJun 28, 2020

Notes for next talk meditation: patreon is not ā€œcharityā€ or ā€œdonationā€ it is the monthly membership business model for entrepreneurs who are independent thinkers and creators of all kinds, patreon is private social medium platform, dollars per month DPM vs. CPM clicks per mille (hits) makes for longer look on relationships with true fans, the 1000 true fan theory by mr. Kelly of Wired, and the True Fan Litmus test (Justin Bieber example), a book called Subscribed, UBI patreon is ABI for entrepreneurs. EBI. Donations and charity are dog whistle words which actually mean more like Bill Cosbyā€™s ā€œblame the poor tourā€ becus once U easily blame poor people for their problems you can say U did ur best and pat ur self on the back and go back to ur wealth thinking U earned it with no help or societal advantage whatsoever. Itā€™s mental warfare that starts of psychological and turns emotional. Now onto the show for the day. 13 min audio or 7 min read. The choice is always yours. Cheers to all the girls and boys. Office hours and storylines to be opening soon!

Change never change. Shout out. Nice. Yeah. Okay, so today weā€™re taking a shower. You used to keep this, like, five or 10. Quick I put five quick 10 just, I donā€™t know I think weā€™re supposed to be reaching out to Black Lives Matter co founders. A treeā€™s Alicia, and opal. And just every day, write them a letter. And maybe ask cat. To help us refine the pitch or organize the pitch, but it is, it is about economic organization, what the business world calls lifetime customer value itā€™s now being called lifetime membership value. So this is sort of economic ally ship and but more importantly its economic organization. And it exists inside the subscription economy. If you Google thereā€™s a whole ecosystem around that term. And because I personally want to sign up to pledge my allegiance. And my commitment to the lifelong pursuit of real structural equality. And thatā€™s going to take without, without placing any attachments or expectations I mean the reality is that the system has been around for a while, you know centuries. So to flip it upside down. To understand how it really works, and where it really came from. And then to re repair it or or re mantel it. Itā€™s gonna take a long time so thatā€™s why we say life long commitment lifetime membership. So you can sign up to become a member of Black Lives Matter, and then pledge, what you want. So it used to be pay what you want. Now itā€™s pledge what you want. And that infers monthly membership business model, which is the future of all business, and the future of capitalism. It is arguably capitalism 2.0 is a more mature capitalism that focuses on hearing the customers and converting the customers into members, and then creating this membership which is actually more like a club, so that there can be a two way conversation. Over the course of oneā€™s life. So, I digress. The goal here is structural equality. And weā€™re yet to figure out exactly how to go about doing it but, but it includes justice, and it includes real direct democracy where weā€™re voting on the issues in this country, and not just voting on people to represent us. I donā€™t think that people need representation, any longer. With our technology, as it currently exists on the worldwide web. So those are just a few elements to the conversation, communication, the dialogue. Because all Americans do want more power, more voice, more votes. And I just added. And if we were to decide like hey what do you want to vote once every four years, or do you want to vote once every month, or even once every year, you know, not on somebody but on the issues that you care about whatever those issues are about government about health care about business regulations about taxes, about civic about environmental about racial inequality, economic inequality institutionalized racism, all this stuff. Creativity education refunding education re pairing. We have to repair education. Okay. So getting back on track. The Black Lives Matter campaign going door to door, and specifically in New York City canvassing on the street, as Greenpeace and Planned Parenthood, and many other nonprofits do they stop you on the street, and they ask you for 20 or $30 membership. I think the way forward is to is to just ask for whatever they want to pledge per month to the pursuit of structural equality, the lifelong pursuit. And I think the greatest, the best move that could happen is a collaboration between Black Lives Matter and patreon Patreon is looking for a is looking for artists such as Patrice opal and Alicia. Some of the top artists in the world who are right now, I believe those three, because they. This is the art of activism. We have talked about it before. And I just think that Patreon is looking for a nonprofit movement to help out. And itā€™s a more interesting headline. When you go to a website these days. Youā€™re bombarded with a lot a whole different a whole world of what it means. But thereā€™s a very focused, ask everyone knows what black lives matter whatā€™s now what they want justice, your organization wants, equality, freedom, Liberty peace for for individuals, and probably want one different types of creative projects to be greenlit like a memorial for all the other fallen. People at the hands of police brutality. They want you know recognition and acknowledgement of the, the war that has been waged on Africa and African Americans for the past four centuries, and a reconstruction period. Maybe. Definitely war reparations possibly making DC, the District of Columbia, a state so the 51 states which would be great because then thatā€™s an excuse to, to create a new flag and maybe thatā€™s a contest of some sort. So thereā€™s lots of different initiatives within this, and so the what the two pages we would recommend that the Black Lives Matter organization check out is the humans of New York Patreon page, and the Chapo trap house Patreon page, the political podcast page thatā€™s bringing in $5, per month from 30,000 patrons users, fans, true fans. So yeah, the question is, is out of the millions of fans of black lives matter how many of them are quote true fans, in the sense that they will just get out there, theyā€™ll go to their, the page, theyā€™ll get out their, their credit card or their debit card, and theyā€™ll sign up as a member in this pursuit of lifelong structural equality. So thereā€™s other things to discuss within this but those are the main things I personally want to volunteer to go into the street, and do some canvassing, and you know anyone, anyone can sign up because youā€™re asking for $1 per month, or whatever people want to pledge pledge what you want it what it used to be, pay what you want. And now itā€™s pledge what you want it sign up, letā€™s create a real relationship that could last the rest of your life, in theory, and Patreon is just, I just think it works really nicely with nonprofits and nonprofit initiatives. And it would be a giant, it would be an incredible headline to to send people to this social platform that is growing every single day, that does more for artists in the world, economically than any other country than any other company in the world, patreon.com, I would urge the three, you three co founders to look beyond the headlines and sort of look into where this company comes from and why it is why it is what it is today. As a technology. Because weā€™re still five six years seven years later, since the founding of Patreon. I still love the origin story, and I still love what theyā€™re doing. So, and we we fail, we think a lot about Patreon, quite often. So, if you would like to get on a phone call, I would love to spend as much time as you would like just discussing Patreon. And if Patreon. In the end is not the right fit. And you decide to go with a membership button on your website, that works as well, anything to get black lives matter to the point where theyā€™re canvassing on the streets, or memberships, or subscriptions. I like the concept for you guys memberships. Because itā€™s like a club, and itā€™s a lifelong thing itā€™s inclusive. Again, Patreon, calm, I would really look into that. And I would love to talk to you on the phone in the future. Thank you very much for your time. I look forward to hearing your feedback and being apart, being a being of service to the the movement as much as I can for the rest of my life. Thank you very much by. Yours sincerely yours truly yours creatively yours considerately yours consistently. To The Future of all generations of people and places and animals, and life on this planet to coexisting in communication.

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