Now I’m generalizing a bit with my title, but consider it for a moment.

Let’s take the music industry for example. People want a shift in the way they purchase and consume their music.

People have shown an extreme shift towards downloads and streaming, and they want it free.

Now, before I go any more in depth, this IS possible, this can sustain an industry, and it’ll probably improve it in the long run. Ads, etc.

Why don’t they give it to the people? Because it’s change, and it means they won’t make as much money, and because they can fight to keep their ways.

Or at least that’s what they think.

The people have spoken, however, and that ain’t gonna fly.

People are pirating music, and moving from CDs to streaming from YouTube, or other free streaming sites, there’s no stopping them. Yet, the music industry still tries to by suing them, and taking their videos off Youtube, or shortening them.

Is this a way to run a business? To not give the customers what they want, and when they find it somewhere else, and thrive on it, cut it off for them. All because you want to keep your precious CDs around, because they USED to make you too much money, the which you took from the artists who made the music you sold.

Let’s see:

1. Rape your employees (artists) – Check
2. Piss off your customers – Check
3. Cut off customers alternative venues – Check
4. Be way too conservative for a product targeted at young people – Check

What’s that? Your business is down? You’re losing money? Your laying off lots of people, because your absolutely retarded conservative business model isn’t sustainable?

YOU DON’T SAY?!

It doesn’t stop at the music industry, the movie industry is suffering from piracy.

Let’s look into that!

Going to the movies costs roughly about $12 a head.

That means a movie date costs about $30, after concessions [which most people sneak in now, because they're ridiculously expensive.]

Minimum wage where I’m from is about $9.50 an hour, which means someone would have to work for 3 hours to take someone to an hour and a half movie.

That’s value if I’ve ever heard it.

They say that its due to people not going to the movies any more, which they blame on piracy.

I blame it on shitty targeted movies, that aren’t worth watching in the first place, taking over the market. This is due to the fact that movie execs are willing to take the risk on an artsy film, or a film that doesn’t target a specific demographic, no matter how good the script is.

The literature industry seems to have saved the movie industry. Some of the biggest recent movies were based on literature, for example the latest Harry Potter was the biggest budget film of the summer [at $250,000,000], yet the only reason someone invested that money is because the books, and subsequent movies, were a remarkable success.

Bottom line: People aren’t going to pay a huge premium to watch the same movie they’ve seen a thousand times.

Popularity on movie recommendation sites tends to favour movies which were groundbreaking in their time. Movies that moved people, and that left you without any words. There’s not too many of these anymore. These are the movies people are downloading.

There’s plenty of businesses who are being way to conservative for the changing of times, and they’re failing, yet the bigwigs at the top can’t figure out why.

I just hope they go out of business to make way for people who actually know what the customer wants.

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I know, its cliche, but too many people don’t do it, and end up dissatisfied.

To live a fulfilled life, one must make life fulfilling, and doing something you’re not passionate about is not fulfilling, no matter how much money is involved.

Too often have I met people, or known people, who follow a path due to their families pressure, or pressures of society.

It’s also amazing the amount of people going back to school. Much of this is to get ahead with their current endeavors, however, there’s still a great number who are just now realizing that they should follow their dreams.

It’s a shame when it happens late, because in a sense, much of that time before was wasted, where it could have been used to better natural abilities, and passions.

What I’m trying to say is that although what you want to do may not be as practical, money or otherwise, it’s more practical for one’s spirit and well-being.

One can be very rich, yet, not be happy. Those are the one’s who sold their dreams for what they thought would bring them happiness, but happiness is closely tied with self-worth.

Unless your passion is doing something that you don’t enjoy, a job can better be done by a person with passion for that field.

You’re selling yourself short by not taking advantage of what you love, too many lives have passed that way.

Don’t live for regrets, live for yourself and your passions.

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