Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]People who work for ?free? but somehow manage to eat, wear clothes, sleep indoors, travel, use computers, etc. ? and probably at something above the bare-necessities-of-subsistence level ? live on the kindness or gullibility of those who DON?T work for free! I wonder whether this moral contradiction ever gives them pause. I doubt it. ?howard > On Dec 11, 2016, at 5:10 PM, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at > gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for all the comments. Of course I said "no." Here's my reply to > them and their response: > > ------ I wrote -------------- > The answer is no. And you might consider that by basing your calendar > business on the "work for free" model, you are furthering an economic > model that is devaluing all creative work and contributing to a decline in > all the arts. > > > ----- they replied ---------- > Thank you your reply. We are sorry we won't be able to present your photo. > We all work for free as a labor of love, so the "work for free" model is > very familiar to us, but we certainly understand your point of view. > > Best of luck in all your endeavors, and blessed holidays! > ---------------------------- > > --Peter