per Pando.com...
Etsy looks to mix community and capitalism as IPO looms. What changed?
So much for Etsy. My deepest condolences to my many arts and crafts friends and family who now will have no hope of earning a bit from their labors of love.
No doubt the new "Etsy" will make a lot of economic parasites obscenely wealthy. But it won't be Etsy. The community will have no place there except as pure consumers.
Community (living, breathing, thinking and feeling, people) can never compete with the massive accumulation of wealth on hand to capitalism (artificial, anaerobic, thinking without feeling, entities).
( did I just have an epiphany writing that sentence?... see below divider... )
Perhaps capitalists should marathon watch
Star Trek: the Next Generation to study the character of Data's series+movies evolution from an artificial, anaerobic, thinking without feeling, entity into an artificial, anaerobic, thinking AND feeling, entity(person?). Could this be a new frontier for business?