Yancey Strickler

Like, how could that possibly be good if we imagine artists having more structure, more legal?

Yeah, all of that seems wrong.

However,

However, it could be, maybe it is, that there is a tension point, a healthy tension point that we can hold and that we can create and design and that can hold our work that allows us to walk that line, that allows us to be both.

And there's a line that Virgil Abloh wrote in the book, at the very end of his book, when Elastis came out before he passed.

And he talks about how he has this line, at the end of the day, I realize no project was as good as the chance to make another one.

And I believe that the C-Corp economy is about maximizing shareholder value, making as much money as possible no matter what.

The A-Corp economy is going to be about making another one.

It's about let me continue to produce work

not go broke, feel secure, pay my collaborators.

If there's a windfall every now and then, awesome, but that's not what I'm here for.

And let me just make another one.

And so I think that's what our economy is.

And I think that's what the A's are gonna be about.

It's not gonna be about financial exploitation.

It's gonna be about producing work

doing it in a secure way, feeling comfortable in our shit and our skin.

And through that, just being able to make more, to make it better, to feel more solid as we do it.

And we don't have to be like them.

We can still be us, but we don't have to be scared and we don't have to be weak.