I substantially agree with you on this; it's a great idea. But to what extent can you build into the system room to grow as a listener. Often the best music is what challenges you in some way--the outliers, not the averages.
A comparison with agricultural means of production and software is absurd.
*Land, capital, and produce is valuable because of inherent scarcity; conversely we all have an interest in maximum resource efficiency because of our common needs. Here the economic incentives argument of the free market makes a lot of sense, or at least needs to be persuasively countered.
*For software, the thing itself is the product; it is not [i]primarily[/i] useful as the means for producing more software. It is only made scarce by artificial means.
*If the food supply fails, I can only help out by making economic decisions at several levels removed from production. If my software breaks or doesn't do what I want, it's counter-intuitive that I can't fix it or improve it.
A better comparison would be between knowledge and software. For both the cost reproduction does not entail of subtraction of knowledge/software from someone else. Would anyone suggest that disseminating a basic high school education is socialist in a negative way?
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I substantially agree with you on this; it's a great idea. But to what extent can you build into the system room to grow as a listener. Often the best music is what challenges you in some way--the outliers, not the averages.
A comparison with agricultural means of production and software is absurd. *Land, capital, and produce is valuable because of inherent scarcity; conversely we all have an interest in maximum resource efficiency because of our common needs. Here the economic incentives argument of the free market makes a lot of sense, or at least needs to be persuasively countered. *For software, the thing itself is the product; it is not [i]primarily[/i] useful as the means for producing more software. It is only made scarce by artificial means. *If the food supply fails, I can only help out by making economic decisions at several levels removed from production. If my software breaks or doesn't do what I want, it's counter-intuitive that I can't fix it or improve it. A better comparison would be between knowledge and software. For both the cost reproduction does not entail of subtraction of knowledge/software from someone else. Would anyone suggest that disseminating a basic high school education is socialist in a negative way?