tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380631593644516380.post3490010190550676216..comments2024-03-17T09:59:25.470-07:00Comments on Making Handmade Books: Working for FreeAlisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04649805582936306865noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380631593644516380.post-49723281606298264712013-10-19T07:58:19.254-07:002013-10-19T07:58:19.254-07:00You have it right. Money is a touchy subject and a...You have it right. Money is a touchy subject and appreciation of things like art and music is unfortunately difficult for many who lack it. They have none to give and any little they have certainly isn't going to be spent buying a ticket to the theater; they're trying to come up with last month's rent, let alone this month's or food or other bills. Why is it that this is so prevalent? Oh, to live in a world where the abuses of a system like money didn't exist. Hopefully, one day people will come together and vanquish this evil, but until then, it seems to me that it is only going to get progressively more difficult to access the arts. Ironically, it is the creative aspects that allow us to engage one another and remind us of our humanity. We are all worth being duly paid for our services and time, and any situation that does not embrace this, I feel, has at its heart a scheme to take advantage of another. In the comment above, it is unclear as to whether they would also prefer being paid more than the proper rate for a job, in lieu of being paid poorly or working for free or the exact proper rate. I think that most would not agree to this and would view it as being somehow dishonest, yet there are many who do receive such "compensation" on a regular basis and monolithic scale disproportionate to the rest of the world. It is my hope that we awaken to see beyond money as an end in and of itself. Today's monetary system will not get us to that brighter tomorrow, and I wish more would come to this realization so that change could be made.Christophernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380631593644516380.post-44462319426693876452013-08-13T08:58:03.151-07:002013-08-13T08:58:03.151-07:00I have always said that I would rather work for fr...I have always said that I would rather work for free than be badly paid (neither, of course, in preference to being paid the proper rate for a job). Not least because pro bono work of any kind can be shrugged off or rejected if something more interesting or remunerative turns up.. That sounds a bit hard, but I've been a breadwinner for my family most of my life and can't afford to be too willing to offer my time and resources too freely..<br />That's not to say I don't do stuff for the love of it, but that's not my Work, must be my Play..Helen Howeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03378013328370139295noreply@blogger.com