{"id":13125,"date":"2015-10-05T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13125"},"modified":"2015-10-04T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T01:18:08","slug":"the-economics-of-busking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-busking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Busking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100515_0114_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Charles Shafaieh wrote about the buskers, or street performers, of New York City:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To maximize profits buskers can&#8217;t dress too nice \u2013 or else people will think they don&#8217;t need money. But they can&#8217;t be dirty either \u2013 or else the crowd will think of them as beggars.<\/li>\n<li>Thus buskers go for the simple \u2013 a plain clean shirt and perhaps jeans.<\/li>\n<li>Commuters value work ethic more than individuals. Those who are there at the same place at the same time every day will draw more contributions.<\/li>\n<li>For about six hours of work during the peak hours between 7 and 10am, and 4 and 7pm, a busker can make anywhere between $50 and $200.<\/li>\n<li>This could potentially make busking more lucrative than being popular on Spotify.<\/li>\n<li>Odd things like the level of terror threat, or the performer&#8217;s mindset can affect donations in a given day.<\/li>\n<li>If a crowd see&#8217;s one person giving money to a performer more tips will likely follow as the performer&#8217;s skill has thus been validated.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the buskers see what they do as genuine art. This is why they may play in narrow hallways where pedestrian traffic is low but acoustics are ideal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the compositions that earn the most money, and other details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopesandfears.com\/hopes\/future\/economics\/216567-is-busking-on-the-nyc-subway-more-lucrative-than-streaming-on-spotify\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopesandfears.com\/hopes\/future\/economics\/216567-is-busking-on-the-nyc-subway-more-lucrative-than-streaming-on-spotify\">Hopes &amp; Fears<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Shafaieh wrote about the buskers, or street performers, of New York City: To maximize profits buskers can&#8217;t dress too nice \u2013 or else people will think they don&#8217;t need money. But they can&#8217;t be dirty either \u2013 or else the crowd will think of them as beggars. Thus buskers go for the simple \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100515_0114_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13127,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13125\/revisions\/13127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}