Comments for PhotoNEO http://www.m2photogblog.com Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:44:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on We want it Cheap, We want it Good and WE WANT IT NOW! by Ed http://www.m2photogblog.com/2011/08/we-want-it-cheap-we-want-it-good-and-we-want-it-now/comment-page-1/#comment-641 Ed Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:44:30 +0000 http://www.m2photogblog.com/?p=633#comment-641 You have raised a few complex questions to answer. One is the free stuff. Well, someone paid for it and pretty much we all pay for it. Advertising pays for much of our "free stuff", you can go back to free TV. It is widely know that heavy advertising at some point raises the price of the products we buy. On the other hand, (I will probably run out of hands) advertising for large companies can raise their number of widgets sold which can reduce costs. We are becoming a society of expecting to get stuff for nothing. Half of the US population pays no income tax but gets government (read our tax money) handouts of one thing or another from unemployment, food stamps and welfare to schools, traveling free on highways and enjoying parks. The expectations for working for what we get has eroded over the past decades. When there is a natural disaster, we expect our government to bail us out. In the early 1900's the community got together and rebuilt. This change in responsibility has made us lazy and now we look first at getting something from some one else instead of ourselves. On a more narrow basis, I still think overall feeling that we have to accumulate as much stuff as we can as cheaply as we can so we can buy more stuff. My parents generation was much more likely to but a good quality item with cash saved and keep it for the long term no matter what new came along. They bought from local people they knew and got personal service and good advice that would keep them as a customer. Wally World offers little to no personal caring if you ever come back. Well, how to you define a large corporation as greedy? I don't know. We keep hearing how greedy the "Big Oil" companies are. They have huge profits. But to look at the bigger picture, their profit percentage is lower than many other large companies. Is Google greedy? Is Apple Greedy? Their profit margins are much higher as a percentage than the oil corporations. So, some of that is perception. Are the shareholders of these companies that are getting a nice return greedy? I think the huge banks are probably more greedy than many large corporations. And of course we must feel that the CEO's and other top managers are making too much money when they get millions of dollars a year. But that is part of our capitalistic system. No, it is far from perfect and if we were not human and weren't greedy, we would all voluntary decide that we should all get the same wadges. But I sure don't want our government to start telling me how much I am allowed to be paid. Unless they say I can have a big fat raise. LOL OK, enough rambling, I better do some work before I loose my job altogether. You have raised a few complex questions to answer. One is the free stuff. Well, someone paid for it and pretty much we all pay for it. Advertising pays for much of our “free stuff”, you can go back to free TV. It is widely know that heavy advertising at some point raises the price of the products we buy. On the other hand, (I will probably run out of hands) advertising for large companies can raise their number of widgets sold which can reduce costs. We are becoming a society of expecting to get stuff for nothing. Half of the US population pays no income tax but gets government (read our tax money) handouts of one thing or another from unemployment, food stamps and welfare to schools, traveling free on highways and enjoying parks. The expectations for working for what we get has eroded over the past decades. When there is a natural disaster, we expect our government to bail us out. In the early 1900′s the community got together and rebuilt. This change in responsibility has made us lazy and now we look first at getting something from some one else instead of ourselves.

On a more narrow basis, I still think overall feeling that we have to accumulate as much stuff as we can as cheaply as we can so we can buy more stuff. My parents generation was much more likely to but a good quality item with cash saved and keep it for the long term no matter what new came along. They bought from local people they knew and got personal service and good advice that would keep them as a customer. Wally World offers little to no personal caring if you ever come back.

Well, how to you define a large corporation as greedy? I don’t know. We keep hearing how greedy the “Big Oil” companies are. They have huge profits. But to look at the bigger picture, their profit percentage is lower than many other large companies. Is Google greedy? Is Apple Greedy? Their profit margins are much higher as a percentage than the oil corporations. So, some of that is perception. Are the shareholders of these companies that are getting a nice return greedy? I think the huge banks are probably more greedy than many large corporations. And of course we must feel that the CEO’s and other top managers are making too much money when they get millions of dollars a year. But that is part of our capitalistic system. No, it is far from perfect and if we were not human and weren’t greedy, we would all voluntary decide that we should all get the same wadges. But I sure don’t want our government to start telling me how much I am allowed to be paid. Unless they say I can have a big fat raise. LOL

OK, enough rambling, I better do some work before I loose my job altogether.

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