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Do you also think we'd be better off without the many van Gogh paintings that didn't sell during his lifetime?
by crystalis 15y ago
Do you also think we'd be better off without the many van Gogh paintings that didn't sell during his lifetime?
- danudey 15y agoWell if they were mass-market prints that cost a lot of money to make and didn't sell well enough to recoup their losses, I certainly wouldn't complain too much when they were cancelled because they were unaffordable.
- zacharycohn 15y agoTerrible argument - Flip cameras aren't suddenly going to become valuable in 200 years. Or 50. Or 2.
- crystalis 15y agoI'm not trying to argue, I was simply trying to discover how much he thought popularity matters. If he figured van Gogh was unimportant, it'd be pointless to try to convince him that sometimes having companies doing interesting things is worthwhile. (On another note, is Mac OS 9 valuable now? Will it become more valuable eventually? Should Apple just have closed shop since they had a small marketshare and a product that isn't valuable now? Could the lessons learned from the Newton have possibly been applied to make some other kind of consumer device?)