Its All About the Money - 2

After a long time this topic has hit me again. Somehow it occurs to me what ever we do, how much ever we do is equated in the end to "how much we make" .. show me the money baby!

This post is partly inspired by this

Some how these days it is important as a son a relative a friend, that you are in the US of A or some distant place minting out dollars or pounds .. Doesn't matter what kind of work you do.. all that matters is, $#$%@#$

Partly can we really blame the people who have these kind of expectations??? This question quiet interestingly points fingers at us, who are connecting to this post. Are we being selfish of not going to the distant land, staying in India doing what ever you wanted to do ... Just for yourself????

 
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Well it some how seems to be like a chicken and egg problem ;) But this is the situation at the ground level where software engineers are the victims.. But The Problem With Money seems to be omnipresent. It is everywhere. Nothing can be done. Below is an interesting observation made by some guy long time ago on Slashdot.

There used to be a wonderful website that provides tabulature for budding guitarists, who couldn't figure out how a particular song has to be played. This website was a breeding ground for lot of such guitarists and a few of my friends including me used to be parasites at this site. This website was called olga.net or Online Guitar Archive over net ;)

Not to be misled by a fact, that playing such songs becomes an inspiration to create much more beautiful music.. and no one here is trying to actually moneterize on the Tabulature provided by that site.

Later on a bunch of guys, thought that this website was causing havoc with the artistes by grabbing away all their money and so this website has to be closed, once and for all. It might be a customary in Indian Cinema, that a poor hero finally wins the Rich man's daughter.. but not in real. This website to this day is still closed and on their home page is a slap at all those musicians, rock stars who wanted to revolutionize the world and bring one hood, brother hood ... my foot.

Below is one interesting post that i have seen on that particular discussion.

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Right. What his 'representatives' are doing with his music seems to be the very antithesis of his philosophy. Indeed, recall the lyrics to Imagine:

Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
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Ink in my brain has dried out, i cant think of anything else to write. So dropping my keyboard for now :)


PS: Thanks for appreciating my ascii art. It looked okie okie in notepad though. ;o)