From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Sat Jul 01 2000 - 12:33:40 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 03:49 PM 30/06/00 -0400, Brian Atkins wrote:
>
> >Welcome to digital capitalism- die, survive, or thrive its your choice.
>
> Ugh. No thanks.
>
> (And of course, it's *not* `your choice', as I tried to argue: it's a mix
> of stochastic flux and brutal top-down manipulation by the inordinately
> powerful. Not quite as hazardous as system gambling in Las Vegas, but close
> - and the floor shows aren't as good.)
>
Actually it is your choice- you claim to understand this particular
economic system (of publishing) very well- yet you for some reason do
not take advantage of your knowledge and make yourself a boatload of
bucks. Or perhaps you have not been able to come up with a way to
use that information, in which case you will have to find some way
to jump out of the system. Selling your stuff over the net is a good
experiment. At any rate, I do think your fate is squarely in your hands.
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