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Originally Posted by Jel
I dunno man, I think every business, and every walk of life has a few that insist that someone or something else is always to blame. I'm nothing special or out of the ordinary, it's my experience most people in this business are the same when it comes to not trying to shift blame. Maybe that's why it annoys me when I see the exceptions (granted, there are more on here where people not in the business continue to post).
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to understand the reason why you find many of this kind of people in our biz you need to understand the history.
porn before the internet was an underground biz.
only people that did not care their image or could not be successful in a normal life participated.
so the number of competitors was small and so was the IQ.
the same happend when internet came. in the start it was a market that was not really mentioned from the big boys - even bill gates did not believe in the future of the internet.
this was a time with a few rich users (internet was expensive in this days) and a few people selling porn to them. and yes it worked for this few people.
but internet became bigger and bigger and today you can reach the whole planet - no matter if your shop is at the time square or in the woods.
this big mass of people made internet to the biggest market the world ever have seen.
and such a market will not be untouched by the big boys.
as we do not have a "time square" where everybody could SEE that there are already more restaurants than restaurant visitors everything we saw was ending up in a bubble because one copied the other and at the end only the smart ones survived.
90% of them who tried it could not compete because of missing skills, missing visions, missing money and missing specialists.
how many youtube clones are out there ?
and how many made it?
people like paul did never understand why they made money.
he really thinks it was because he is good. but when people are hungry they even eat the food from the worst cook.
paul does also not understand the meaning of economy.
in his world it must be allowed that only one farmer is growing apples and works 4 hours per day. this farmer could take every price he wants for his apples no matter if another one had to work a month for an apple.
he does not understand that competition means prosperity and luxury for the buyers. he does not even realize that he is a consumer too - he sees it as a normal fact that he can to to a bakery and buy a bread for 3 euro.
he does not know that he would pay 300 euro in HIS world as there would not be another bakery allowed.
he also reduces buying power of a consumer to porn - wich was and still is 0,29% of a humans budget.
he can and will never understand that a carpenter 1000 years ago made and sold only one chair for each customer. he doesn't understand that thousands of cafes, restaurants and bars also bought one chair for each customer, not to sell the customer the chair but the drink or the food.
with this many carpenters produced many chairs and the chairs became cheaper and cheaper.
he can't understand what a gigantic industry it is today that people have built their business on buying chairs for their customers and offering a free seat.
in an industry where people with paul's IQ happen to be in the right place at the right time you will find many who do not understand the course of things and who are always looking for a reason that feels better than their own incapacity.