Amanda Palmer: The art of asking

She introduces her topic by talking about a past job where she was a street statue and explaining what she would do in the streets; by talking about couch-surfing and the connection that it's created.

The topic of this TED talk is crowdfunding. This means the practice of funding a project by raising monetary contributions by a large number of people, typically via the internet.

The topic is supported when she talks about a undocumented family from Honduras who welcomed her and her band in their home, she felt bad because they had very little but they were giving that little to them. Then the mother told her that her music had helped her daughter a lot and then she came to the conclusion. She realised that people voluntarily wanted to give her because they felt like she has already given them something through her music.  

She concludes by showing her crowdfunding, saying that she has gotten a lot of criticism. People don't understand that exchange because of the way the industry is built. She want celebrities to not be an untouchable thing, because that's not real.

“The question is not how we make people pay for music, the question is how we LET them pay for music”