r h wrote:
[snip]
> Money is a necessity but so is work. The problem for me is that I work
> whether I am paid or not. I work to accomplish an artistic goal. But I
> do need money and will only live as long as I have it to do my work.
Well and succinctly said.
[snip]
> > > Brad this has gone a lot beyond the general statements you are making.
> > > What was a problem with the work of the Arts is now, in the Information
> Era,
> > > a problem of almost all Informational Products. In the past you
> could
> > > escape the issues because it was not a factory, retail or a school but
> today
> > > the issues that have plagued arts economics since Adam Smith and John
> Stuart
> > > Mill are now a huge problem for creativity in the TNC economy. Not a
> bad
> > > idea for a serious future of work list to contemplate IMHO.
[snip]
Right again. Perhaps we can even make a "ratio", today,
that, increasingly: Intellectual property
is to land and machinery, as information warfare is to guns and
fortifications.
"Credo quia absurdum"(sp?) -- I [or, rather
Prof. Szczepanski...] believe in the possibility of a society
which is neither capitalist-individualistic nor collectivist-conformist
but rather socially-individualizing even though it is entirely implausible
to imagine how it can come to be. (But no person can even try to
accomplish in reality what they have not imagined in fantasy.)
Without intellectual property rights, not just failed inventors, but
all inventors are either poor or secretive in a pure capitalist economy.
--
But, probably fortunately, we do not have a pure capitalist
economy. There are researchers in "government" and "foundations"
and academia who do get a steady paycheck so that their discoveries
go into the public domain *and* they can count on at least
a middle-class lifestyle. Sometimes standards are
devised and agreed upon that contribute to the public good.
--
Ray and all: I apologize if I intellectually soil this
conversational space due to my logorrhea.
+\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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