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The Culture of Cheap and Free

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Uploaded by on Nov 26, 2009

Consumers are used to getting their music, films and books - for free. What is this doing to the marketplace? Are we paying too high a price for being cheap? Is globalization with its cheap imports and digital technology offering us free music, media and films, giving us the wrong idea about what we should value?

Guests: Alan Middleton, Mike D'Abramo, Gordon Laird, Jesse Brown

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  • well no matter what one wishes, the fact is to that guy with the glasses from calgary, you gotta adapt or die

    but it's not so nasty as that might sound, because in this case the adaptation is less like dinosaurs and meteors, and more like tribes turning into city states the adaptation is gonna get you a looooooooooot more, in all kinds of ways, including with money takes a bit of educated faith, and some foreplanning though like all enterprises

  • 'Freetards Unite', nice subtitle Steve.

  • Somebody's using skype in background.

  • My only criticism would be that there wasn't quite enough discussion of the pure economics involved, which when touched upon looked like it might go to some very interesting places, but otherwise a fascinating watch. Economist J.M. Keynes was famed for arguing the post-industrial 'age of leisure' would be awaited with dread. As market capitalism dissolves, and with it the underpinning of almost all traditional societal drivers, he appears to have been, as was his want in all things, half right.

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