in some sense my big dream all along has been to build a truly fantastic media organisation. I’m doing a 1-man version of it for now. it’s not worth formalizing beyond that because the unit economics doesn’t work, needing to pay $ etc distorts the incentives (which is why no really amazing media org exists)

But I guess the naive response to this would be "form a cooperative" or "exchange something other than $" or "organize around a religion" or something along those lines.

Why is the naive response wrong, in this case?

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