Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]bearing in mind that brute Capitalism is rarely, if ever a good thing (unless you are a senior manager at Enron, or Dubya running you Primaries campaign from their company jet ;-) ). Nor is the Free Market ever free - it's a theory and depends on an assumed perfect knowledge, homogeneous and easily divisible products, and a large enough number of market participants that no single participant could influence the market price; with the participants acting from "enlightened self-interest" (again, Enron shows what happens when these all fall out of whack - as they generally do, the theory of Laissez Faire Capitalism being adapted and adapted as circumstances change. Don't think Enron is going to be the last such case.). In the case of Corbis and photographers (many Leica photographers among them!), you have a very rich man reducing the level of market place participation to the point where he aims to become the only main player and dominate the market. Doing so out of unenlightened self interest. It's becoming another good example of the failure of what is believed to be Capitalism (bearing in mind that what is touted as Capitalism today really isn't any such thing - it's like calling what Jerry Falwell spouts Christianity... In fact the analogy is fairly good - what is generally called Capitalism is more like Fundamentalist Capitalism - simplistic, warped and fundamentally unsound). tim a over to the LUG forum - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html