Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing

An anonymous reader writes "Since Wired's Jeff Howe coined the term in 2006, 'crowdsourcing' has been a buzzword in the tech industry, and a business model on the rise. 99designs.com is a site that hosts design contests for small businesses requiring relatively smaller design projects. Anyone can submit their near finished pieces of work to the contests, but only one winner gets paid. Forbes covers just why established graphic designers are so angry at this business model's catching on."

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Re:Crowdsource CEOs

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What makes you think that I presume I have a say? Expressing an opinion is not the same as making a demand. Obviously, I don't, and whatever I do say will not matter to the decision makers, so why are you worried?

Class means, basically, that the interests of the people who make under $250,000 a year, for instance, are markedly different than the interests of those making over $250,000 a year. You see, it is in the interest of people who employ other people to overvalue capital and devalue labor. It is in the interests of those who work for others to value labor over capital.

And unfortunately for you, in reality, everything is anyone's business. You can't act without impacting others, and therefore, your acts are their business. If I convince enough people to limit the pay of CEOs, then the pay of CEOs will be limited. That's just reality. You can claim I am violating some kind of basic rights, but if I convince enough people that those rights are utter bullshit made up by and for the benefit of the owning class, then those rights don't exist.

Rights do not exist outside of the minds of people, and inside the minds of people, rights are whatever the majority is willing to defend. If the majority is not willing to defend a right, then it is a right in name only. You can appeal to authority with arguments about natural or God given rights, but those arguments only work because people accept them, not because the right is actually natural or God given.

If you don't like other people getting in 'your' business, you can always eave society, otherwise, we are all in each others business, all the time. That is what living in society means, we are interdependent, and we all get a say in how society functions. Ideally, having more money should not influence how much control you have over how society functions, but in fact, it does. That is the major reason I see for limiting the pay of CEOs. If they could not use their money to gain power over other individuals and society as a whole, I would have no problem with their wealth. You see, it isn't the wealth I have a problem with, it is the power.

You on the other hand, seem to think some people should have power over others, whether those others agree to it or not. Some people (maybe including yourself?) are simply better than others and deserve to tell those inferior others what to do.