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To get paid $ 0.20 or $0.50 for a sold image, is it not a kind of modern slavery?
Quote from: Beppe Grillo on March 11, 2015, 05:15To get paid $ 0.20 or $0.50 for a sold image, is it not a kind of modern slavery?No it's not. We all could be doing something else, if we wanted to.
Masochists, perhaps. Slaves, no. There is still plenty of real slavery left in the world, and those people are not shooting landscapes with $3,000 cameras or sitting in their comfortable dining rooms drawing Christmas cards.But do we deserve a bigger slice of the pie? When one or two people are multimillionaires or billionaires and we're making a teeny tiny fraction of that, but the billionaires are making all that money just selling our work, then yes. There needs to be some more equal distribution of profits. We're living in the age of the new robber barons.
I'd say its more like entrapment.
We are simply bottom feeders in a large pond.Slavery it may not be.. but the share of the pie we receive, does seem more and more like a slave's share
when did slaves ever have a 'share'
Quote from: cascoly on March 11, 2015, 13:21when did slaves ever have a 'share'Your use of the word share reminds me of the share cropping system. I think these days microstockers do have a lot in common with share croppers. We're out here doing all the wotk and the agency owners are getting rich off our efforts.
capitalism is a modern slavery even if you are paid well - then, you are a well paid slave
Quote from: ferdinand on March 11, 2015, 06:29capitalism is a modern slavery even if you are paid well - then, you are a well paid slavecapitalism Socialism is a modern slavery If Jon at SS is really a billionaire, then I'm guessing that he alone has made more money than all the contributors to SS put together. It doesn't seem fair, but the truth is that just about any of us could have done what he did back in the beginning of microstock if we had the foresight, energy, and business savvy. But we didn't. He did and he gets the big payout. Neither whining about it nor wishing for a Communist workers paradise is an attractive alternative IMHO.If we don't like it, we can stop contributing, which in fact is what I personally have done. We're not slaves.
how the heck does a phone photo pass, that's taken with a sensor the size of the head of a 2 penny nail and a lens that's plastic and the size of a thumbtack. But a shot with a DSLR is "soft at full size"?
the next BIG THING in stock is : what will be the pricing of Adobe's Fotolia ? higher than micros or only based on cheap subs so to lower our fees even more ?SS and the others will change their pricing accordingly and this will be a matter of life or death for many stockers in my opinion.
2015 is a time for changes to Microstock, and that will be BIG changes. I can only hope that some will be good for contributors and not just for the agencies.Prediction? 2015 FT will pass IS, Dreamstime will drop down to the levels of 123RF and DP. The sales have to come from somewhere. The volume of new buyers is not expanding much anymore. If FT goes up, agencies below, will go down as Adobe/FT gathers a larger market share.
, the era of desktop computers is definitely over at this point, more than half of computing will be based on mobile platform and content will be consumed on mobile platforms.
Quote from: Hobostocker on March 18, 2015, 03:47, the era of desktop computers is definitely over at this point, more than half of computing will be based on mobile platform and content will be consumed on mobile platforms.Not at allhttp://www.smartinsights.com/mobile-marketing/mobile-marketing-analytics/mobile-marketing-statistics/
I now use tablet for most things, but still need the desktop to edit photos and upload them.