Prince has posted an excellent (if irritatingly spelled) (yes, I know I published a novella today with a bunch of potentially irritating hacker spellings, sue me) rant about what's wrong with the music industry.
Something happened on the way 2 the 21st century. Media and entertainment companies started "converging" and "shareholder value" became far more important than customer service and respect 4 company employees ever managed 2 b. Compensation packages 4 company xecutives hit the stratosphere — while holding them accountable 4 their company's results became nearly impossible.
These xecutives r indeed very naive if they think that people haven't noticed.
People r noticing that something isn't quite right — that something is indeed very wrong. After a decade during which the stock market gained apparent respectability as a legitimate, sensible 4m of investing, the recent slew of huge corporate scandals reveals that it is still what it has always been: a sick place where neurotic, puerile gamblers get their kicks off the backs of millions of "anonymous" workers and individuals, who have no control over what happens 2 their hard-earned retirement savings.
(Thanks, Alan)
