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You assume that this "value" must be captured by the original artist. Why do you assume this? Do you think without royalties we wouldn't have an abundance of go
by jquery 13y ago
You assume that this "value" must be captured by the original artist. Why do you assume this? Do you think without royalties we wouldn't have an abundance of good music? Nothing in the arts is cheaper to produce than music.
- Samuel_Michon 13y ago> Nothing in the arts is cheaper to produce than music. How about poetry? Performance art? Pantomime? Dance? Standup comedy? Etc.
- jquery 13y agoAlso very cheap to produce and compensated accordingly. Let's not get stuck comparing the value of one bag of pennies to another. Of course there's a range and some poetry will be cheaper to produce than some music and vice versa.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoI was reacting to your claim that nothing in the arts is cheaper to produce than music. That obviously is not true. As for what which arts have value, I think the costs have little to do with that. There are art projects that cost millions that I think are shit, and there are street musicians who can barely buy a deli hero who I think should get million dollar record contracts.
- tzs 13y agoI'm assuming that in a fair system, people whose work produces more value should make more money than people whose work produces less value.
- jquery 13y agoI'd argue that the marginal value of yet another song is very, very low. There's far more good music already being produced than most people could possibly consume.
- tptacek 13y agoNothing in the arts is cheaper to produce than music Please support that argument with evidence.
- jquery 13y agoThe musicians I pass by on the subway are evidence enough. Music is so overproduced you consume it even when you're not looking for it.
- tptacek 13y agoSo when I see murals on walls, that's a sign that art is overproduced?
- mechanical_fish 13y ago"Who cares if rare birds are becoming extinct? We've got plenty of pigeons." I need to act on the plan to go to the symphony more, while I still have the chance. Symphony orchestras would be in trouble even without the internet; they're very expensive, since they're collections of dozens of trained professionals who have ever-fewer daytime gigs. Alas, recordings are nice but don't really do an orchestra full justice. Real instruments have real timbre. And, of course, even the recording would be lousy were it not for highly trained and rather expensive studio and mixing engineers.
- jquery 13y agoWith all due respect to your "rare birds" analogy, donate to your local symphony if you truly support it. Don't just talk about it and don't make me pay for it. I have my own entertainment I value and I would prefer my money go to support that instead of your own personal preferences.