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The existential questions that your generation gets to answer are these:
Why do we value the network and hardware that delivers music but not the music itself?
Why are we willing to pay for computers, iPods, smartphones, data plans, and high speed internet access but not the music itself?
Why do we gladly give our money to some of the largest richest corporations in the world but not the companies and individuals who create and sell music?
This is a bit of hyperbole to emphasize the point. But it’s as if:
Networks: Giant mega corporations. Cool! have some money!
Hardware: Giant mega corporations. Cool! have some money!
Artists: 99.9 % lower middle class. Screw you, you greedy bastards!
Congratulations, your generation is the first generation in history to rebel by unsticking it to the man and instead sticking it to the weirdo freak musicians!
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LOL... And really I did laugh out loud to that.
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Artists: 99.9 % lower middle class. Screw you, you greedy bastards!
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So is he arguing that tech companies in comparison don't employ the middle class?
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Congratulations, your generation is the first generation in history to rebel by unsticking it to the man and instead sticking it to the weirdo freak musicians!
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Am I wrong to think that Warner and Universal etc are also corporations or are they non-profit hippie collectives of some sort?
The internet and connected devices does much more for me than that CD with two good tracks on it collecting dust in the corner, excuse me for adjusting my budget in light of that.