Isn't Globalization wonderful!  If you want to put it into historical context then the free market idea of Adam Smith is the real winner . . .  what we have here is the peasants fighting for the last wild boar in the King's forest . . . .  and every hungry peasant is invited.

Isn't Globalization wonderful!  If you want to put it into historical context then the free market idea of Adam Smith is the real winner . . .  what we have here is the peasants fighting for the last wild boar in the King's forest . . . .  and every hungry peasant is invited.

I like the analogy which works better in European cultural terms. Since the USA never had Kings, Dukes, Lords, preserves or only some elite small groups who could hunt or fish in many places, it falls short of the modern world as it is now. I still like it.

Supply and demand, that's what it's all about: The model of supply and demand predicts that for given supply and demand curves, price and quantity will stabilize at the price that makes quantity supplied equal to quantity demanded.

We have a world abundance of creative people with the tools to produce the products. (photos, writings, whatever...) Distribution is not limited by political boundaries. The trade unions and limits to publication have been broken down. You don't need to physically print things anymore to distribute them. You don't have to have a degree or go through an internship or apprenticeship, to get your work recognized.

I'd say the biggest factors to all of this change is the electronic world we live in. Specifically digital equipment that's widely available to anyone with moderate means, and the Internet. That would be Supply, Distribution and Demand.

I know I'm old but imagine when some of you young whipper-snappers (whatever that is) will be telling your kids about the old days, when you got magazines in the mail and you could hold them in your hands. When newspapers were printed on paper and had many secondary uses, like lining the bottom of the bird cage, crumpling up for packing material or wrapping fish. Or are those already primary uses?

I grew up in the age of multiple newspapers, daily morning and evening, plus some weekly. Someone might get a comment printed in a letters column, but there was no public voice.

Now we can have ones own blog or website and write to the world, about anything we please. Meanwhile the newspapers are going extinct. Yeah "The Times They are a-changin'" (Bob Dylan)

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So the question is, where will be get the paper to line bird cages, pack boxes, make paper mache masks or wrap dead fish? No more free supply! I see a marketing opportunity coming of age. Blank, clean newsprint. 

hey that sounds like a great business venture, Race. you don't even need to produce the clean newsprint, just gather them from the third world countries who would still be using newsprint.
let's get into this business together. maybe we'll get so filthy (bad pun) rich with this joint venture, we won't need to be micro stock photographers . hell ,
you could even use the profits to start your own editorial only micro stock site.
me? i can retire to lay on the beach in some Greek island, drink my Guinness.