Compensating artists is important, but its not remotely as important as killing off the theft of attention industry. The interruption industry has to go.
We will use tipped likes to encourage people after the fact (the only place we can evaluate the merit of works from and our desire for more) to produce future works. Thats it. Its like on-the-fly crowd sourcing of artists. Its the simplist way to cut out the middlemen who destroy our political systems. It stops the infinite redirects and premature disconnections (implied above to shil for more coin) and completely disincentivises abuse of attention by removing the conflicts of interest and placing us solidly in control of our own attention.
Whether or not the work around scheme materially complicates or weakens the system there will be the appearance of more centralization and unecessary load. For years before I heard of MaidSAFE I was dreaming about the model being proposed here now but now it seems that popcorn time plus tips plus 8 billion people isnt a compromise, rather its the best way forward.