What very few have focused on is the sharecropper mentality with which corporations generally treat what are now vilely called “content providers,” as if “content” were some kind of sludge that corporations can just dredge up out of whatever ditch, scoop into a bucket and pour down the throat of the culture. And we are accepting this; we accept that authors and musicians are practically required to starve, and we accept that journalists and painters must starve, also, and pick up whatever crumbs may fall from the corporate tables of The Huffington Post or LiveNation or whatever sharecropper bosses are self-righteously raking it in.
