A possible way for indies to multiply their strength!

I have come up with an idea that may allow all indies to organize themselves in a way that lets them increase their productivity 5-fold in the area of asset production. This is submitted for the GG community's inspection :)

The problem that many indies (including myself) have is developing the huge amount of assets necessary to make a marketable 3D video game. Now, there are ways to attain assets outside of creating them yourself or with your team, such as purchasing them online at places like turbosquid.com, but this method is still problematic. The problem with purchasing assets is 2-fold -
1) The assets available for purchase are often low-quality, of an inconsistent poly count (10,000 polygon sword? pretty, but unusable!), and the fact that many of the good assets have been used in many other games.
2) Indies don't really have the money they need to buy all the assets for their game in the first place, even if there were enough quality assets available. Being an indie means (for most of us) being perpetually broke, making asset purchasing impractical.

These things and many others make asset purchasing an unrealistic solution to many indies, including myself. Of course, using a team to create all the assets is lovely on paper, but is plagued with managerial overhead, especially with long-distance teams. Fortunately, I have thought of a simple, elegant system to address these problems. I looked at the fact that most indies don't have money to spend - and saw a way to make something other than money the medium of exchange... I also looked at how few quality assets were available, and thought of a way to counter this as well, all in one simple system -

I start a website with, say, 59 quality game assets available. Instead of selling the assets in an assets pack (since game developers have no money to buy them anyway), I allow the consumer to donate 1 of his assets in exchange for 4 assets from the database. This allows the consumer to turn his 1 asset into 5, thereby quadrupling his artistic productivity! And after the exchange, the donated asset becomes available on the database, bringing the total assets available to 60. Each time a person gets assets from my database (or, more precisely, a license to use the asset) another asset is added to the database, allowing the database to keep expanding!

Of course, the asset wouldn't simply be donated, but instead the consumer will license to me the ability to license his asset to other consumers. Assets stay the property of the donator, but I am enable to license the asset to anyone else (including myself if I donate to the database).

And, as follows, not all assets would be exhanged 4 to 1. In fact, each asset would have a value rating. The higher the quality and complexity, the higher the value rating. When a consumer offers to donate his asset, he will be offered 4x as many "value points" that his donation rates in value. Thus, he can use these "value points" to license as many assets as he wants whose total value does not exceed his "value points". If he is not happy with the "value points" we offer for his asset (sometimes we will offer none if the asset is of no value), then he can simply refuse to take the deal. So basically, the customer gets "value points" by donating assets, and can spend his "value points" by licensing assets.

So, each time an indie donates an asset, he gets back approximately 4 more, and even more assets become available for other indies. Ultimately, this could multiply the productivity of an artist by 5, and create a constant influx of art to ensure that a massive amount of quality assets will eventually available to all indies with passable artistic skills.

Of course, there are a bunch of other details, but I wanted to throw this one against the GG wall and see if it would stick. Any comments, crits, or insights are welcome :)