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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Mrkai's vision is NOT inevitable. His type of outside-the-box value thinking led to the last internet stock crash.
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I was there. What led to that were businesses with no method whatsoever of generating revenue.
It wasn't about "giving stuff away"...it was about ridiculous business "plans" that didn't remotely have any chance of working. It was about burning thru other people's money.
It was about marketing products that did not exist or could not be made.
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Originally Posted by Penforhire
People woke up and noticed that giving stuff away did NOT add value and was unsustainable. It will happen again. A generation of non-producers is self defeating or leads to communism, which has not yet proven sustainable (nor desirable to me).
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Oh Please...I'm the biggest capitalist out there. At no point did i mention or endorse anything like that. In fact, I get paid...everyday.
Again, for the people that just won't pay attention...digital content has value.
The problem is, the market has decided that value...and that decision is that it is worth less than physical product. Artificial "locks" on the unlockable and moralistic chest-thumping aside, IT IS THE REALITY WE FACE today...even if it is not the ideal.
And whenever I ask "what do we do?" no one that is being "stolen from" or "ripped off" can come up with anything viable that *addresses the actual market as it exists*...which is why there is failure.
And this notion that its just "teenagers" or "slackers" or whatever? Do not delude yourselves.
I mean seriously...do you think ANYONE in the real 10 hour workday world gives a damn if a bunch of soft people that sit on their butts all day clicking "send" to make a buck loses a buck from time to time?
The "communist" notion here is "right to work/right to compensation". The fact is, if no one pays you...your work is worth nothing on the free open market...is it?
There is a serious disconnect here between intrinsic and extrinsic value.
Look. I get it. Everyone that uses anything electronic and didn't fatten someone's pocket deserves to be beaten and raped in prison for 10 years as they are a fetid, horrid waste.
Good luck selling that one, guys
