[Fmpro] Prague Orchestras

[Christopher Alpiar]

Well Rick I know you hate my guts as you have told me privately a few  
times, but I cant let you get away with such a misconception, albeit  
one that is based on goodness and fairness. I don't think you are evil  
for thinking this way, but I think you have not seen the light.

Ideally the concept works. Free trade: everyone jump in! Lowest bid  
with the best product wins! The danger with free trade is that there  
is no global policies on human rights, civil liberties, or quality of  
life. So what you in fact do is open the floodgate to let a group of  
people who have paid tooth and nail over history to respect a certain  
demand of quality of life for their talents lose their opportunities  
to countries with no respect for the equivalent groups in their  
countries. So it is like letting the air out of a highly compressed  
can of gas and what remains in the end the trillions of gas molecules  
are so spread apart and with no common ground for quality of life,  
liberty and pursuit of happiness that you have changed the structure  
from the intended pyramid of multi classes to a monarchy with a power  
elite and a mass of serfs and slaves.

The immediate is that some poor joe who happens to have stuck out the  
war in Croatia now gets a shiny Andrew Jackson to wave around and buy  
his luxury. The long term is a collapsing of a middle class of skilled  
laborers. Sounds pretty capitalist-communist to me (wow never thought  
of those 2 terms combined!)

As a guy who is currently in Ohio (newly arrived in 06 so its amazing  
to see) I am witness to the amazingly depressed economy that is a  
DIRECT result of this exact thinking in other markets. Ohio is the  
state of factory workers, Ohio is currently the 4th highest  
unemployment rate in the US, Ohio is where many of the GM plants are.  
I have met people who have had their LIVES (30+ years) in factory work  
supporting their families (big country families) who all the sudden  
are unemployed and with no skills other than working on a factory  
line. What do you tell them? I know one guy who was a GM man for 36  
years, a senior supervisor on the line, who was bought out 3 years ago  
for a years salary (or faced with being laid off), and is now working  
for 10 dollars an hour at the age of 64. If that isn't wrong I can't  
even begin to imagine what is.

The concept of free trade is wonderful, its utopian and its idyllic  
and fresh. The consequences are much more severe however and  
completely irresponsible to the working people and the quality of  
product they create, everywhere,  ultimately

On Mar 13, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Rick Blanc wrote:

> Well put Mark, and I would simply add this:
>
> Attempts to control markets invariably depend on the application of  
> some sort of power, usually political.  The modern world is not only  
> substantially democratized and open for business but the technology  
> being put to use today all but guarantees that attempts to control  
> the recording industry by seeking to control the marketplace will  
> fail.  Efforts to that end may succeed temporarily but not long- 
> term.  Most countries that offer alternatives to the USA for  
> recording today are not only democratic but are eager to compete.   
> Even non-democratic countries (China, though not recording -- yet)  
> are eager to get into the competitive market game.  What logic would  
> lead one to believe that we don't have to be competitive?  Only a  
> logic that is able to ignore facts.
>
> Rick
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Christopher Kennedy Alpiar
Cinematic Composer
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