It boggles my mind that there are so many businesses that have yet to comprehend the basic reality of the internet (Movie studios and music labels, I’m looking at you)
These businesses are in the distribution business, which is to say, they are in the scarcity business. For their products, scarcity is directly related to price. [...]
The Economics of the Internet
20 sq. ft. and a Credit Card
While I found all of James Kunstler’s article on Peak Suburbia interesting, the thing that struck me the most was the following graph, taken (by Mr. Kunstler) from the pages of Shopping Centers Today, the house organ of the International Council of Shopping Centers, dedicated to serving the global retail industry.
I had intuited over [...]
Rethinking Globalization
Rethinking Globalization
The Cynics Glossary of Business Terms
The Cynics Glossary of Business Terms
Peter’s Puritan Principle
The Puritan Work Ethic is a sign value; the perceived difficulty or effort expended in accomplishment of a task, not the outcome of that task, is the measure of the worth or value of the task. Accordingly, something that demands a long period of extreme effort and determination will be worth more than whatever comes [...]
Artists & Businessmen
It is worth noting that none of the art objects that the average businessman owns or admires were created by people wearing suits and ties in offices, nor do these works of art concern themselves in the least with work.
Art celebrates love, life and pleasure, and is created by people whose lives are unscripted, sordid [...]
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