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[превземено од NY Times]

 "The first time I ever heard the word “content” used in its current context, I understood that all my artist friends and I — henceforth, “content providers” — were essentially extinct. This contemptuous coinage is predicated on the assumption that it’s the delivery system that matters, relegating what used to be called “art” — writing, music, film, photography, illustration — to the status of filler, stuff to stick between banner ads.

"Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge. I now contribute to some of the most prestigious online publications in the English-speaking world, for which I am paid the same amount as, if not less than, I was paid by my local alternative weekly when I sold my first piece of writing for print in 1989."

Текстот е изваден од тука, a се работи за јавна поплака во која авторот објаснува колку малку е платен за неговиот професионален труд- пишување на текстови. Текстот е интересен и е вистински пример за тоа што се случува во модерната економија.

Сакам ова да биде само hint за утрешниот мој пост, кој доколку го прочитате ќе ви стане јасно зошто цената на многу производи и услуги е толку ниска (и како би била висока само со вештачко ограничување на понудата).

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“Let us not kid ourselves,” Professor Vladimir Nabokov reminds us. “Let us remember that literature is of no practical value whatsoever. ... ” But practical value isn’t the only kind of value.

"[Businessmen] they can get away with paying nothing only for the same reason so many sleazy guys keep trying to pick up women by insulting them: because it keeps working on someone. There is a bottomless supply of ambitious young artists in all media who believe the line about exposure, or who are simply so thrilled at the prospect of publication that they’re happy to do it free of charge."

Еден од најголемите предизвици на 21виот век е да се најде вработување за луѓето во модерната економија.