From davidwin@TDS.net Fri Mar 27 05:23:37 2009
Subject:Re: OT: A Musician's Response To The National Right To Work Committee

Allan Evett wrote:

> WOW...Tons of assumptions and labeling here, plus black and white
thinking.

Yet you point out nothing specific. You in effect, simply dismiss
without argument.

> I'm not getting rich doing this, never have... Didn't think that
there was any crying going on.

Your level of wealth is not relevant to my point. What you manage to get
via union extortion rather than standing on your own is the issue.

>.Weird.

Is that an argument?

> I'd be happy to earn at the same rate or a few bucks more than I made
a night in 1991.

What does it mean to "earn"? In a free trade, where monopolistic
coercion is not involved. it means wages paid to you and by free choice,
which means according to the value of your work. With unions involved,
earn means the rate determined by power manipulation, having nothing to
do with the individual, or music. I don't find value to have much place
in union dealings, or the use of a word like "earn" in such dealings to
be very honest.

> But exploiting hobbyists and lower quality workers?

Your question would seem to imply that I made such a comment. I did not.
I rarely use the term "exploiting", and would not describe a union
forcing such people out of the market to be well described by that word.
It is the consumer of music that is taken advantage of when musicians
are monopolized.

> Geesh, you make me sound some corrupt union boss

My intention was to point out what unions actually do in distorting the
market, in monopolizing labor for their own purpose, to the detriment of
the consumer, and to non-union workers. The fact that some unions are
corrupt is not the point.

> (At least I see the GRAY, and am willing to admit that we had a few
of those back in Chicago).

My arguments against unionism pertain to conceptual principles, are a
matter of political, economic, ethical philosophy. Grayness does not apply.

Dave W.


>
> Cripes ...Any intelligent folks left out there who are willing to work
> with one another from the middle - instead of being so polarized ?
> Read my previous notes...
>
> --- On Thu, 3/26/09, Dave Winslow