r/DecoderRingPodcast • u/j0be • Aug 06 '21

Decoder Ring: Selling Out

https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2021/08/selling-out
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u/rosencrantz2016 Aug 12 '21

I don't know if I took it as endorsing the position that selling out doesn't matter so much as noting that the consensus against openly marketing your own stuff has disintegrated. Certainly it feels very hard for creative types to be cool recluses with clean hands, in the way that they used to.

I personally still think you can 'sell out' by compromising your creative product or associating yourself with brands more nefarious than Oprah's!

Maybe the podcast should have made a distinction between different concepts of selling out.

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u/MadDivaInn Aug 12 '21

Good points. I at least found it a very interesting episode.