Getting Paid.

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Pay me what you owe me
At last! Someone who's making sense. How do creatives get cash! Its been the problem for centuries. Seems as though the creative types of technologies have an easier time. After all if you have a wheel the person who invented it can say “hey! Pay up” but Descartes may have a harder time trying to cop cash when Popeye says “i yam what I yam.”
HOW DID WE GET THIS WAY?
We were brought up in this world, we live in a system of exploitation, and continue with it. The hard part is we also live with the ideology of democracy. Which really clashes with the system we thrive in.
when the Greeks kicked off the idea of democracy, Athens was a slave state, there were more slaves than free men(and I mean MEN) the only participants in the democratic process were males, of the land owning variety. Skip forward

• Columbus shows up on the shores of the new world”free land”


• Portugeuse sailors hit on a great idea for “free labour” from Africans.

Free land free labour! Man, how friggin cool is this.
So how are we different? Well we are sophisticated. Everyone should get paid right!
Look down at those sneakers,take a sip of your coffee,the only way to get paid is, to pay! Ensure your information is paid for, maybe we should start an internet fair trade program, or labels like “the content of this site are fairly acquired, no artist, intellectuals have been exploited to have this information available. Oh , yeah creative commons.
So are you willing to not browse on sites that exploit workers