| > This is the sort of thing the people that want to "disrupt" the music industry don't understand, they think that artists not getting 100% of their music sales is a terrible thing, what they don't seem to understand is there's a reason the music industry takes a big cut. People drastically underestimate the difficulty that is present in industries other than their own. Engineers/Programmers are notoriously bad at this. Disrupt Education/Hollywood/Music/Movies/Medicine/Everything! Now, they will eventually be proven correct (anything that can be defined; can and will be automated), but it is the systemic underestimation in difficulty that's the problem. Doing well in any industry is hard, and most people don't understand that when they only have the facile prejudices of various industries to rely upon. Things are broken, yes. People will fix it, correct. But it is not nearly as easy as people like to think it is. Coders scream in shock and horror when people call them nothing more than code monkeys (which they obviously aren't) or when people state how easy programming is compared to generating a brilliant idea (it's obviously not). But coders will scream just as loudly that others aren't very bright, smart, worthy/aren't doing work in their industry correctly. Things are harder to do than most people, including you or I, can possibly anticipate without the requisite domain knowledge. |