Who do you think produces the stuff that Sony et al market? They still need real artists to write songs and books and movie scripts. Of course big capital appropriates the product, and the artists at the top of the heap even get a cut of the profit flow, but they can't industrialize the process entirely. Case in point: the absolute failure of MBAs to rationalize book publishing. Doug
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I didn't say anything about the artists and writers. They are irrelevant. The condition, I think is similar to the middle ages where the craftmens were anonymous or close to it, and the institution and its officialdom presided over production.
Chuck Grimes