Stuart Jeffries on the rise of freecomomics | Money | The Guardian
Anderson is doing a nice job of pushing the opportunities that the internet and globalization brings to business. I believe that this brings more opportunity for value creation, but perhaps to more people in a more equal way. The end of the monopolization of the blockbuster and the channel owner, rather than 'free lunch' for all.
There are more opportunities to pay for what I want in a way that I want to. I can pay for the convenience of a ticket or piece of media without the ads; or I can put up with the ads and deploy my money elsewhere.
So, I am not sure that I feel the Protestant work ethic or Freud's reality principle are under threat in our youth and society any more than learning the lessons of life is always hard for those given an easy time. There are clearly social changes that we need to adapt to, as individuals, parents and managers, to teach that lesson that we need to do work to get what we want.
"The fact that we need to work in order to narrow the distance between our desires and realising them means that nothing in this world comes for free. The myth of a free lunch, whether it takes the form of 'free health care' or 'free education', is the ultimate dream of the consumer society, to take and consume everything without having to give anything back. The obligation to pay is the restraint that economics puts on human greed. Yes, we can have everything we want, but we must accept that there is a price to pay."
Christian Michel, a French libertarian quoted in article
Anderson is doing a nice job of pushing the opportunities that the internet and globalization brings to business. I believe that this brings more opportunity for value creation, but perhaps to more people in a more equal way. The end of the monopolization of the blockbuster and the channel owner, rather than 'free lunch' for all.
There are more opportunities to pay for what I want in a way that I want to. I can pay for the convenience of a ticket or piece of media without the ads; or I can put up with the ads and deploy my money elsewhere.
So, I am not sure that I feel the Protestant work ethic or Freud's reality principle are under threat in our youth and society any more than learning the lessons of life is always hard for those given an easy time. There are clearly social changes that we need to adapt to, as individuals, parents and managers, to teach that lesson that we need to do work to get what we want.
"The fact that we need to work in order to narrow the distance between our desires and realising them means that nothing in this world comes for free. The myth of a free lunch, whether it takes the form of 'free health care' or 'free education', is the ultimate dream of the consumer society, to take and consume everything without having to give anything back. The obligation to pay is the restraint that economics puts on human greed. Yes, we can have everything we want, but we must accept that there is a price to pay."
Christian Michel, a French libertarian quoted in article
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