{"id":257,"date":"2006-08-27T21:29:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T04:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2012-06-24T09:41:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T16:41:53","slug":"how-much-future-is-there-in-a-job-that-millions-of-very-smart-people-are-willing-to-do-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/257\/how-much-future-is-there-in-a-job-that-millions-of-very-smart-people-are-willing-to-do-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"How much future is there in a job that millions of very smart people are willing to do for free?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cathy brought home the Sunday newspaper, and I spent a few minutes pulling out the sections I wanted to read. Which sections? The circulars from Best Buy, OfficeMax, Staples and CompUSA. We buy the daily newspaper never, and the Sunday paper maybe twenty times a year. I have absolutely no use for the news part of the newspaper, it’s just the package the real news comes in: What can I buy where for how little money?<\/p>\n

In fact, I read the Arizona Republic<\/em> and the Las Vegas Review Journal<\/em> every morning, along with with whatever other news seems most apposite to my dealings. But I read everything on-line. And as much as I hate the hoops I have to jump through to read newspapers on-line — this by comparison to the extreme convenience of my RSS feed reader — reading them on-line is by far superior to wrestling with the antique form-factor in which they are sold.<\/p>\n

Moreover, I do not intend to ever pay for a newspaper again unless<\/em> it contains advertising circulars that can save me money. In the long run, even those will come to me in a format I like better, even if it’s only email, and that will be the end of the Sunday paper at our house.<\/p>\n

There’s a disintermediation message in here, by the way: When I was a young turk in the graphics industry, the old timers would tell me that computers could never replace print because, after all, you can’t print a coupon on a CRT screen. It betrays something about their belief in the added value of works of the mind that they thought the thing of greatest worth that could be printed was a coupon, but — guess what? They were wrong anyway. Staples, for one, can’t seem to stop<\/em> emailing me electronic coupons.<\/p>\n

But here’s where I’m really heading with this: In general, I do not intend to pay for ordinary information. Period. If you want my money, you have to deliver something that I can’t get anywhere else — and that I can’t get along without. Or you have to deliver it Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cathy brought home the Sunday newspaper, and I spent a few minutes pulling out the sections I wanted to read. Which sections? The circulars from Best Buy, OfficeMax, Staples and CompUSA. We buy the daily newspaper never, and the Sunday paper maybe twenty times a year. 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