THAT MICROSOFT IS AN INVINCIBLE MONOLITH THAT MUST BE STOPPED
It stopped itself by failing to innovate, by being eclipsed by others in the marketplace. This paradigm works in music as well as tech. Sure, people want to hear old tracks whereas they’ve got no desire to use old computers, but if you’re not cutting something new and great on a regular basis you’re fading in the rearview mirror.
TICKETMASTER IS THE ENEMY
Acts are the enemy. Because they won’t go to all-in ticketing. Ticketmaster fees are promoter profit. As for getting all seats in the venue on the manifest…now that’s a challenge.
TAPES/HARD DRIVES ARE ANATHEMA
ELO and Milli Vanilli were castigated, now everybody uses them.
TABLETS ARE FADING
They’re just merging with phones, which are now the computing devices of record. A large hand-held is many people’s only device. If you don’t have a mobile strategy, if your site doesn’t render properly on a phablet (phone/tablet, get it?), you’re losing ground. Don’t forget, Facebook’s stock burgeoned because they figured out mobile.
INSTITUTIONS ARE BIGGER THAN STARS
No, they’re not. Nate Silver has credibility and gravitas. Anybody can write about data, but that doesn’t make them worth following. How come the New York Times knows it’s about stars on the Opinion page, but not elsewhere in the paper?
THE APP ECONOMY
Turns out we’re all gravitating to apps, it’s inherent in the move to mobile, but everybody expects them to be free.
OBAMACARE WILL BRING DOWN THE PRESIDENT AND TURN EVERYBODY INTO REPUBLICANS
When you lose the war, move on. The future is about new ideas, not hashing over the past. Turns out people wanted affordable health care and despite the hiccups in the system, it’s turning out just fine. You can argue with me, but you’d be proving the point.
IF YOU WORK HARD YOU WILL BECOME RICH
The rich start with huge advantages. In America we’ve got a self-perpetuating underclass.
MUSIC DRIVES THE CULTURE
We haven’t had that spirit since 1989. Tech drives the culture. But tech is not art. Art trumps business every time, but it requires true artists to accomplish this, trained people willing to color outside the lines.
NO ONE WILL PAY FOR RADIO
Sirius XM has nearly 30 million subscribers. If you don’t subscribe, you’re the one being left out of the party. Remember, being cheap has consequences.
YOU CAN COMPETE WITH HBO
There are a limited number of quality writers and producers. HBO gets first pick, that’s where the talented people want to go. Sure, there’s overflow left for Showtime and Netflix, but not much.
TELEVISION COMPETITION SHOWS ARE RUINING THE MUSIC BUSINESS
Not a single star has been minted by The Voice. And American Idol has faded to near irrelevance. If you’re focusing on the TV paradigm to explain your lack of traction and the vapid music of today, you’re just wrong.
PUBLICITY EQUALS SUCCESS
We can ignore everything, and the more we’re beaten over the head with something, the less likely we are to imbibe/check it out.
“When you lose the war, move on. The future is about new ideas, not hashing over the past. Turns out people wanted affordable health care and despite the hiccups in the system, it’s turning out just fine. You can argue with me, but you’d be proving the point.”
“You can argue with me, but you’d be proving the point”. Said kids on playgrounds all over America. Does Obama Care cover getting the “Cooties”?
The guys at Forbes wilt in the face of this announcement, or not.
“Writing in Forbes, Manhattan Institute health-policy analyst and NRO contributor Avik Roy discovered that in 3,137 of America’s 3,144 counties, Obamacare has hiked 2014 individual-market premiums by an average of 49 percent. Women saw rates increase in 82 percent of U.S. counties, while they rose in 91 percent of counties for men. Although some have benefited from Obamacare’s subsidies, Roy writes, “Those who face higher premiums, higher taxes, or both, appear to outnumber those whom the law has made better off. That alone isn’t a test of the law’s virtue — but it is a measure of the law’s failed promise.”
We will see if the AFFORDABLE Care Act is embraced by as much of the electorate as you think over the next couple of years. You will no doubt continue to insist that the wails and gnashing of teeth in the hinterland is proof of your point. Kumbaya.
By the way, your boy Obama and his boy Holder’s open border policy is letting legions of criminals through
(Whom, by the way, miraculously at the behest of the US Dept of Justice are classified as white if they commit crimes. http://thekansascitian.blogspot.com/2014/09/stats-dont-lie-well-unless-you-are.html )
with unspecified diseases and placing them secretly all over America. No doubt they will qualify for Obama Care as soon as their feet hit American ground free of charge. The upside, is that they will all vote Democratic. If you argue with that are you proving the point?
Chuck U MAD, BRO or just have the fear of a non-white planet? You going to get the herp from Jose Angel Cabral? Does that keep you up at night? Kumbaya or kumonya either way, the 2nd was a little crazy-train.
I am in no way your fu#kin “bro” and no I ain’t mad. The dead don’t sleep. I got the herp from the same place you did, your mom.
Ouch, spanked by Lefsetz.
Chuck, I know you are stilled pi$$ed at LBJ for Medicare so those of us that know you and love you here at KCC realize you will never accept and move on from Obamacare.
Seriously, talk is cheap.
Comments are cheap.
The wealth transfer Obama Care intinitative, now in place, which steals the hard earned cash from middle class Americans to fund the ever growing takers who suck the life out of makers is a disgrace.
Lets talk after all the initiatives, the legislation, the rape, the fuc*in rape of hard working middle class folks, who have to pay for socialist bul&^it lies you guys, you liberal, Kumbaya economists have delivered by way of “The Fundemental Change Of America”.
Let just see what happens.
If you want to talk about wealth transfer, how do you justify spending almost 20% of our GDP annually on healthcare? Apparently that’s ok with you.
How about just allowing anyone who loves Lefsetz to subscribe to his letter for free here:
http://www.lefsetz.com/lists/?p=subscribe&id=1
and resume reporting on stories of KC area local interest?
I used to subscribe myself, but the signal-to-noise ratio got way out of whack several months ago. Maybe you like him because he is one of the few people online who is more impressed with his opinion than you are with yours.
+1
WILSUN!! WILSUN!!
And we are just dying for that second harlinator article of course!
We still teach myths which have been disproved so dispelling myths of these things is hardly worth a gander.
An article which once again proves common sense is not common.
MYTH: Chuck is not mentally ill to some extent.
TRUTH: He sure is.