each person or group here is an individual business. we don't work together just as wal mart doesn't work with target.
do you think wal mart cares if they destroy the retail landscape? no, for them that is the goal. to be the last one standing.
do you think brazzers cares if they destroy online adult? no, that just means they won.
we are all competitors although there may be alliances from time to time.
your thinking is confused here.
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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
Then you have been in the wrong industries or businesses. I've been in a few other industries in the past. All of them cared about the well-being of their industry, and actually gave back to it and fought for it regularly. And still do. Even factory workers band together.
People in adult are animals when it comes to their (our) industry. The closest we get to unionizing or banding together or even talking to each other at all are these messageboards and some ICQs & emails. And then all we do is argue and complain with each other. Webmaster events and expos aren't carried out to improve the industry or join toward some common goal, it's to hawk more shit to other webmasters and stay drunk for a week.
There may be other industries out there that are as disconnected as we are, but I've never been a part of them. And the worst part is, we have nothing to fight with even if we needed to. We can't strike. We can't disconnect the porn. We can't "hold out" or negotiate. If Washington decided to pass some crazy anti-porn law tomorrow, whether it's right or wrong would be irrelevant, we'd simply be fucked. No one fights for Adult. And if they did, what would they say or do? Nothing. Remember Ashcroft? What if there's someone in the future that's worse?
Even our own customers wouldn't fight for it. Which side of the aisle is going to stand up and publicly argue FOR porn in Washington. Neither.
I'm sorry to those that don't want to hear it, but all of that has got 'Dead End' written all over it in my eyes. I'm not saying porn is going to vanish or anything, I'm saying that this is the reality of the business we're in, and it's not what I want. That's all. I'm not anti-porn or anything, I just want better organization and support and purpose in my life. I've been in Adult for 10 years and I know now, I'm not going to find that in the Adult industry. We are disconnected and unorganized and always will be. It's just the way it is.
But I don't see how you can say any other industry is the same. That simply isn't true. Walmart workers are more organized than we are.
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