Why do these old ideas keep popping up in new packaging? The points made in this post are elaborate and provocative, but completely wrong (in a moral sense). The key here is transportation. It's an expensive thing, and if you think about it, all the worlds businesses make ALL their money, on one layer of abstraction or another, on transportation. When an engineer designs a product, the reason for the disproportional amount of money between him and his bosses are all a measure of how far he is from the means of production (im sure the poster of the parent comment know this rhetoric very well). So, obviously the engineer is bitter. But who does he strike out against? His Bosses. This is the first mistake, because everything has a balance, and if you remove one thing, without putting another in it's place, something will replace it. But this posting proposes to replace the record company with a collective of recording artists which share profits uniformly. The implications of this model are *even worse* than those of a big business model. You'd have a group of people of unequal talent, unequal production, dissimilar messages, and most often, very different amounts of effort invested in their projects, all receiving the same amount of money. If the fundamental flaw of this arrangement isn't obvious, then we're all fucked. I want an oppressor that is tangible, when my situation is fucked, I want it to be my fault, or some other discreet entity; but kill me before you dare to make everyman my enemy simply because i am not the type of person who can idly sit back and profit on the works of others. We are all *created* somewhat "equal", but it is one of our responsibilities as humans to subjectify and improve ourselves. I think if we were all on a sinking boat, and we had the option to swim, or to tie everyone on the boat together, the natural solution would emerge, and the insanity would sink on it's own premises.
Think.
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Why do these old ideas keep popping up in new packaging? The points made in this post are elaborate and provocative, but completely wrong (in a moral sense). The key here is transportation. It's an expensive thing, and if you think about it, all the worlds businesses make ALL their money, on one layer of abstraction or another, on transportation. When an engineer designs a product, the reason for the disproportional amount of money between him and his bosses are all a measure of how far he is from the means of production (im sure the poster of the parent comment know this rhetoric very well). So, obviously the engineer is bitter. But who does he strike out against? His Bosses. This is the first mistake, because everything has a balance, and if you remove one thing, without putting another in it's place, something will replace it. But this posting proposes to replace the record company with a collective of recording artists which share profits uniformly. The implications of this model are *even worse* than those of a big business model. You'd have a group of people of unequal talent, unequal production, dissimilar messages, and most often, very different amounts of effort invested in their projects, all receiving the same amount of money. If the fundamental flaw of this arrangement isn't obvious, then we're all fucked. I want an oppressor that is tangible, when my situation is fucked, I want it to be my fault, or some other discreet entity; but kill me before you dare to make everyman my enemy simply because i am not the type of person who can idly sit back and profit on the works of others. We are all *created* somewhat "equal", but it is one of our responsibilities as humans to subjectify and improve ourselves. I think if we were all on a sinking boat, and we had the option to swim, or to tie everyone on the boat together, the natural solution would emerge, and the insanity would sink on it's own premises. Think.