Taylor Swift decided to not put her music on Spotify last week and the music world is all a-buzz. The issue of content creators (that warm and fuzzy catch phrase for artists of all stripes) not getting paid for their work is a very hot topic right now, at least among artists. I hope […]
As I was walking to work one beautiful San Francisco Monday morning, I tuned in to KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny. The topic was the issue of restaurants in the Bay Area wanting to do away with the tip-based system and going with a 20% gratuity fee. The conversation got into all kinds of complicated areas […]
Corporations are alive and you are their meal ticket. You think you are safe but you’re not really. Not in this new world. How much is a pound of flesh worth? Your flesh. Because that’s what we’re talking about. Money and human flesh. Body parts: severed arms, crushed legs, mangled hands, droopy skin, […]
What?! I learned about this when I got to work on Monday. My first thought was: ”Does Denzel know?” +++++++++++++++++++++ I went to the movies last weekend with my wife. “Two for Denzel,” I said when we got to the counter. “Oh, you mean the Equalizer,” said the college-age cashier. “Yes,” I said. Tickets were […]
If you owned a hamburger joint, would you email the hamburger joint down the road and ask them to advertise your specials on their website? Sounds kind of weird, right? Would you be offended if they said, “Um, no thanks?” Would you then try to convince them that they’d be furthering the cause of hamburgers […]