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Music Modernization Act passes Senate unscathed in bid to fix music streaming royalties
maestro64 said:I did not read this all, but I never understood, why people or companies want the government to fix their business dealings. You make a product and you want to sell it then you negotiate a deal with whom you are selling it. If you think your product has more value then you should hold out for a better price.
The problem is most creative types tend to be very bad business people, who's fault is that, of course the government and they need to level the playing field for people who have no interest in become business savvy. Some of the best creative types who are very successful are also very good business people, they learn what they needed to do to get ahead. So it not like understanding business is a highly specialize skill.
I never agreed with what the Record business turned into which was turn out as many songs and records as possible whether they were good quality or not since the record company only made money selling records. The artist only got a small cut of them, but they had very little risk in that part of the business. Overall the record company ruined it for everyone.
The best talent made real money doing concerts not selling records. If Artist were better business people they could do personal appearance build huge following then negotiate better streaming deals since consumers would want to hear the music and streamers like Apple would have to pay to get the content consumers want. Verse what we have today most content has the same value and we are still getting the bad with the good and having to pay for the bad just to hear the good stuff.
But this all required individuals to be responsible for their own success.Because unique situations bring us, civic society, to apply a hand, we hope it can always be a benign hand, to relationships. Kindly note the following selections:
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The record of early industrialization is invariably one of hard work for low pay, to say nothing of to say nothing of exploitation. I use this last word, not in the Marxist sense of paying labor less than its product (how else would capital receive its reward), but in the meaningful sense of compelling labor from people who cannot say no…. The high social costs of British industrialization reflect the shock of unpreparedness and the strange notion that wages and conditions of labor came from a voluntary agreement between free agents. Not until the British got over these illusions, in regard first to children, then to women, did they intervene in the workplace and introduce protective labor legislation.
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The record, then, is clearly mixed. State intervention is like the little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead: when she was good, she was very, very good; and when she was bad, she was horrid.
David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), 381–82, 520.
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As much as Western Civilization is prone to loving its formulas, principles, and syllogisms, sometimes wisdom applied with a deft touch is the best answer! (Cf. Richard E. Nisbett, The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently … and Why (New York: The Free Press, 2003).
Regarding the Music Modernization Act: I was pleased to see that there was something a bunch of partisans could agree on! :-)
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Ralph Nader once again assails Apple's stock buybacks
Did you ever meet Steve Jobs? No.
I’d have thought he might have been a fellow traveler. Yes, but if I had under contract 900,000 serfs in China, I wouldn’t want to meet me.
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Okay, but does the entrepreneurial ethos appeal to you? I like the ethos, but I don’t like the priorities. Because what’s going on is that it’s shifting the rewards for the economy away from necessities to whims.
David A. Kaplan, “Ralph Nader: The Fortune Interview,” Fortune, February 24, 2014, (http://fortune.com/2014/02/06/ralph-nader-the-fortune-interview/).
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Apple's Tim Cook talks education, says he wouldn't want his nephew using social media
Mr. Cook accrues insight through paying attention to those he quietly admires, just like I do, and you, I presume, too:Latko said:I don't see a single reason why Cook - a father without kids - could have the necessary experience, idea or insight about how I should raise my kids.…
___Even Silicon Valley parents who work for social media companies tell me that they send their children to technology-free schools in the hope that this will give their children greater emotional and intellectual range. Many were surprised to learn that Steve Jobs did not encourage his own children’s use of iPads or iPhones. His biographer reports that in Jobs’s family, the focus was on conversation: “Every evening Steve made a point of having dinner at the big long table in their kitchen, discussing books and history and a variety of things. No one ever pulled out an iPad or computer.” Our technological mandarins don’t always live the life they build for others. They go to vacation spots deemed “device-free” (that don’t allow phones, tablets, or laptops). This means that America has curious new digital divides. In our use of media, there are the haves and have-nots. And then there are those who have-so-much-that-they-know-when-to-put-it-away.
Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (New York: Penguin, 2015), 55.
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Apple's senior arborist reveals Steve Jobs wanted Apple Park to recreate old Silicon Valle...
I love Mr. Muffly and Steve Jobs’s arboreal passions, but Mr. Muffly’s faith in unilaterally deleterious climate religion is a leap I’m unwilling to make.
As the New York Times reported: “…the most recent computer projections suggest that as the world warms, California should get wetter, not drier…” (Justin Gillis, “Science Linking Drought to Global Warming Remains Matter of Dispute,” February 16, 2014. Also note: Freeman Dyson, “Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society,” Edge, August 7, 2007).
Science-based diversifying would entail preparations for wetter or drier eventualities, and droughts regardless of the triggering.
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Foxconn chairman raises uncertainties over building displays for Apple in USA
This discussion reminds me of the following from the late David S. Landes, professor of economics and of history at Harvard:“How much more vexing are the sassy dismissals that tell the public to rejoice at the prospect of cheaper cars and TV sets, which they can no longer afford, and advise them to seek jobs growing soy beans or servicing bank accounts. This, remember, is a replay of the advice John Bowring gave the member states of the German Zollverein in 1840: grow wheat, and sell it to buy British manufacturers. This was a sublime example of economic good sense; but Germany would have been the poorer for it. Today’s comparative advantage, we have seen, may not be tomorrow’s.”David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), 521.
