Aaron Sherber wrote:
[snip of compelling points]
Again, please keep in mind that I'm not arguing in favor of technology over live musicians. But the issue is a complex one, as other posts have also made clear, and for me the arguments based on employment are among the least compelling.
Made even more complex because the very people arguing against using technology when it replaces human beings are using technology to replace human beings all the time with no regard for the jobs lost in their use of technology.
This is, after all, a notation-software list, which means that human being engravers who had all the skills and tools of the trade to properly engrave music have been made obsolete by the very technology this list was originated to support.
So it is very disengenuous in my opinion for someone who is using finale to produce engraved output instead of going to a proper engraving shop to pay for engraved output to argue against somebody else using technology to put them out of work.
It is a dog-eat-dog world, and if some technology to put people out of work is acceptable, we all just have to hope we can dance around the problem and come out employed when the technology gets to a point where it is our job which is replaced by technology. Or eschew all such technology and give our argument more weight.
It is helpful to keep in mind buggy-whip manufacturers during the advent of the automobile -- they could fight it and die or they could turn their skills to something useful and profitable.
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