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Every business likes to buy from perfect competition and sell as a monopoly. This keeps input prices low and output prices high. This model is so profitable t
by mathattack 15y ago
Every business likes to buy from perfect competition and sell as a monopoly. This keeps input prices low and output prices high. This model is so profitable that companies bribe politicians to maintain it. Donating to a SuperPAC is more cost effective than R and D and has anshoeter payback.
I see 2 ways of fighting this:
1) Civil disobedience - Pirate everything and share while willingly accepting the consequences.
2) Shine lights on the evil doers. Support wiki leaks. Publicize. Organize voting drives.
I have bills to pay so I support number two. Great social change requires number 1.
- rbanffy 15y ago> Great social change requires number 1. Movie studios and the recording industry can, at best, delay the inevitable. Artificial scarcities are against the laws of thermodynamics. Of all the money these industries make, only the tiniest fraction of it goes to the people who actually produced the good. Most of it is inefficiently applied in side operations such as promoting sales, manufacturing the physical support for the art, moving and storing it and selling it. All these operations can be reduced to a download and, perhaps, a payment.
- mathattack 15y agoFair points though the Internet delivery model won't make advertising or sales promortion go away. More efficient, yes, but not gone.
- rbanffy 15y agoAny quantitative change of a couple orders of magnitude brings along a qualitative change.