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Re: Zoe Keating in NY Times article.@borisfx.com
Right on Rick!
Antony Hequet
Poet composer
On 31 janv. 2013, at 00:44, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
> I get a lot of 'quit crying over spilt milk' kinds of responses
> to my own anger about the way that music and musicians have been so
> devalued
> in our culture due to the new paradigm shift of downloading (and the
> demise of the CD)
>
> I know it's not going to change (though I have some powerful friends who
> are attempting to
> come up with a new paradigm---more on that later),
> but what I've noticed is that people are really uncomfortable about
> anger being expressed openly in a public forum, but they seem completely
> okay with the major companies being completely usurous and exploitive.
> It's a sort of <shrugs shoulders> "regretful but that's the way it is
> and we
> are powerless over it."
>
> At the same time, major corporations spend millions of dollars trying to
> improve their images through the media (look at BP after their Gulf of
> Mexico
> debacle)...........the major corporations DO listen to public opinion
> and they
> do respond when there is a grass roots surge of protest. Even the
> largest company
> on earth, currently, Apple, is suddenly scrambling
> to try and bring some of their manufacturing back onto US soil because of
> universal public displeasure at the disclosures about the slave wage
> conditions
> of their Chinese manufacturing sites.
>
> At one point in this country in the last century,
> the major industries heavily exploited their laborers and they rose up
> against them and the Labor Unions were created and Child Labor laws
> were created and the 40 hour work week was established............all
> humanizing and positive influences in our culture.
>
> It took, however, major displeasure by the government and industry
> and a lot of indignant anger and organizing to forge those changes.
>
> iTunes, Spotify, Pandora and their ilk are exploitive..........period.
> point. dot.
> Apple went from a cool 'underground' artsy company to the largest
> multi-media
> (indeed, purely the largest) company on the planet, partially because
> of their
> technological innovation and partially because of this very exploitation.
>
> Why don't we all just say "NO, not any more" to these people?
>
> It has nothing to do with being an old fart.
>