Happy New Year.
Its nice to see that one person on the list "gets" the solution provided by
this sick society for artists. Now Brad is beginning to imagine the same
thing for other professions as well.
A combination of conscription and "working for free" can keep labor costs down. Perhaps the most serious argument against a guaranteed income is not that it would make people lazy, but that it would enable artists and others to "hold out" until they got a decent remuneration for their work. Wouldn't this be a more truly free market than one in which many are forced to sell their labor at bargain basement rates?
One man's free market
Is another man's involuntary servitude.But there are exceptions to the starving artist rule:
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/quotes3.html#Q140
Was Gehry born this way? Or did "paying his dues" leave him resolved he'd never take that kind of crap again, and also with no desire to help the next generation have an easier time of it?
\brad mccormick
> If you want to know how that works,
think 98% unemployment amongst college graduates. When the same is true for everyone then this crazy invisible hand on my private parts will be shared by all and someone will rise up and cut it off.
May your New Year be as happy as for the Artists of America.
REH
PS Every artist giving a concert that makes 60% of its return in ticket sales and makes it up from his own teaching is doing it to keep his name in front of a fickle public who appluades wildly and rides freely. Most of those old jazz recordings that you love never made a cent for the artist. They were just advertisement paid for by the artist or some "angel". Fame is the most fleeting of capital investments. Saw a lot of those folks tonight on the TV singing the old songs. Put them back now in the box for another year and goodnight.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 8:31 PM
Subject: [Futurework] The Industrial Reserve Army at work improving
productivity
Here's an item I just saw on the NYT on the Web homepage (note that the article is *old* and therefore only accessible by paying an archive retrieval fee, even though there is no indication of this: Newton only invented laws of physics -- somebody at thet NYT has here invented a new way to make money!)
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/sq/FreeWork.gif
If productivity is output divided by costs, the benefits of unemployment are obvious.
Also: The solution to copyright problems is to starve the writers, then they will put their stuff up for free, in part so somebody will see it, and in other part (like the lady in the picture...), in hopes of attracting paid employment.
Just think of how unemployed cardiologists and neurosurgeons and other workers could help hold down rising medical costs (etc.)! Apocryphal testimonial: "I, George W Bush, got a free heart transplant from an unemployed cardiologist who hoped that by operating on me he might attract a job offer. Actually, I've had three, since the first two have already had to be replaced. I heart-ily recommend it if you are lucky enough to get an invitation."
Cheers!
\brad mccormick
-- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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