Years ago on this list I spoke, to little avail, about the problem of Intellectual Capital and the need to work out some form of salary, living, compensation, etc. for the creative side of public life.
The general attitude on the list was that supply and demand would take care of it. I responded that Supply and Demand was only as smart as those who did the demanding and that the suppliers of crucial creative products would suffer and in the case of complex cultural products DID suffer mightily. I also pointed out that the ownership society had enough culture for the people who had the money to hoard it for themselves and their offspring. That left the rest of the 98% of the population in a sensorial and cultural hell. My response to that was through the minimalist composers who sought to copyright the C Major chord and scale and to charge for anyone using it. I thought it was "over the top" and silly enough that the point would be made. But the article below shows how the virus of ownership has now stretched far beyond what is logical and has now begun to degrade the culture and the environment to the advantage of the few. Meanwhile we have ex-bankers and Wall Street folks living off of their winnings and complaining about the terrible "mob of people" and why they won't stop breeding, choose to euthanize for their good and to stop driving their cars. Is it any wonder that the rest of the world has trouble understanding us? REH http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/books/review/Darnton-t.html?ref=science
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