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If you are in IT as a normal 9 to 5er then it is already happening as the larger corporations work to suppress wages, a downward pressure that is felt throughou

If you are in IT as a normal 9 to 5er then it is already happening as the larger corporations work to suppress wages, a downward pressure that is felt throughout the market. To say nothing of how much of one's economic productivity is stolen by being charged for services that others use via taxation (even when you don't count welfare; I'm talking things where big companies get corporate welfare and tax breaks with the burden falling on the average taxpayer).

anigbrowl 11y ago
I can't help noticing that most of the arguments against paying for creative works seem to be rooted in grumpy Marxism.
- batou 11y ago
  I'll give you another one. Most creative work is crap and distinctly not tied to the return of investment. If I buy a book for £6 I get a few days if not a couple of weeks of enjoyment out of it. This is good. Well done authors. If I buy a £1 music track I get perhaps 20 minutes a week out of it for a few weeks before I burn it out.
  - anigbrowl 11y ago
    I can't help you with your aesthetic dissatisfaction. Perhaps you should only spend money on music to attend concerts, or save up your cash to buy a musical instrument instead of listening to recordings that provide only transient enjoyment. I presume if you are stealing something (to use your phrase above) it is because you want it at the time you help yourself to it. If you suspect that you will quickly get sick of music, why not just spend the money on books instead? I mean, if I found that every time I bought fish and chips I felt sick afterwards I wouldn't start stealing it without paying, I would just stop eating it. If you steal music in digital form without paying for it, of course it is not lost as with a physical object, but you have lowered the equilibrium price of the good by unilaterally increasing the overall supply.
    - batou 11y ago
      Incidentally I play the piano, guitar and clarinet... Perhaps that's the problem. I will reflect upon that.

anigbrowl 11y ago

I can't help noticing that most of the arguments against paying for creative works seem to be rooted in grumpy Marxism.

batou 11y ago
I'll give you another one. Most creative work is crap and distinctly not tied to the return of investment. If I buy a book for £6 I get a few days if not a couple of weeks of enjoyment out of it. This is good. Well done authors. If I buy a £1 music track I get perhaps 20 minutes a week out of it for a few weeks before I burn it out.
- anigbrowl 11y ago
  I can't help you with your aesthetic dissatisfaction. Perhaps you should only spend money on music to attend concerts, or save up your cash to buy a musical instrument instead of listening to recordings that provide only transient enjoyment. I presume if you are stealing something (to use your phrase above) it is because you want it at the time you help yourself to it. If you suspect that you will quickly get sick of music, why not just spend the money on books instead? I mean, if I found that every time I bought fish and chips I felt sick afterwards I wouldn't start stealing it without paying, I would just stop eating it. If you steal music in digital form without paying for it, of course it is not lost as with a physical object, but you have lowered the equilibrium price of the good by unilaterally increasing the overall supply.
  - batou 11y ago
    Incidentally I play the piano, guitar and clarinet... Perhaps that's the problem. I will reflect upon that.