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Do you mean monetization and making a business are the main goals? I thought they were means? Means to accomplish progress in human society.
by smhg 11y ago
Do you mean monetization and making a business are the main goals?
I thought they were means? Means to accomplish progress in human society.
- bsaul 11y agoIs that what your boss tells you whenever you ask for a raise ? edit : that's not just a snarky comment. i always find it amusing whenever people advocate giving other's people's work away for free.
- rorykoehler 11y agoDo you say the same about Spotify?
- tljr 11y agoYour time is worth exactly NOTHING to me. If all you're offering is a duplicated proof of your sunk time (software, movies, the list goes on), you're going to struggle for a share of the resource I use to primarily to get food for my kids. That's not just a snarky comment. I always find it amusing whenever people try to sell things with no real actual value and them complain it's hard.
- cmiles74 11y agoI don't think anyone is advocating giving work away for free. Netflix has a large customer base and continues to grow it, but their library falls short for many people. It's also not available everywhere, and some work is only available in certain regions.
- smhg 11y agoMy comment was not meant to participate in the free vs paid discussion. That's indeed a whole other thing. Your question itself, snarky or not, makes me sad. Doesn't that imply you spend a large part of your day doing something you don't like just for the sake of making money?
- bsaul 11y agowhy do you assume me asking for money means i didn't like doing it ? i'm asking for money because i think what i'm doing has value not because i didn't like doing it. And the fact that people like it so much they're ready to pay for it makes it even more enjoyable to me.
- smhg 11y agoI understood your question as a description of this situation: the combination of you/someone having a constant desire for "more money" and the other party turning you down by default. That sounded like a sad cooperation to me. For you/someone: the other party is never interested in an constructive cooperation/dialogue. For the other party: you/someone sees the work itself as second (or less). But as I now read you enjoy it by itself, I misunderstood.
- forgottenpass 11y agoYour question itself, snarky or not, makes me sad. Doesn't that imply you spend a large part of your day doing something you don't like just for the sake of making money? What world do you live in where businesses exist to advance humanity and people work on things they like? I'd really like to move there. The world I live in, only a handful of companies believe in their feel-good mission statements and it's a luxury for someone's passions to overlap with an obtainable well paying job.
- smhg 11y agoI hope the same as you. At least in the one where the goal is to have people work on the things they like. Both parties benefit from this, no? Just to be clear: I'm not expecting everyone to always be able to work on what they like. But as _a goal_, it sounds better to me than making as much money as possible. You'd always take a better paying job over one which overlaps with your passions?