Our experience and observation from a decent sample of artists is there is real power in quality of interaction and durability of relationships and supportive community rather than vapid empty and often gamed stats and numbers pitting us against each other.

As you allude, this can be very expensive in human costs to co-exist against the constant pressures of fragmentation, clout culture, otherism and surveillance capitalism.

We are all in this together and small can be big, ymmv and all. ❤️ 5/