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WRITER: Create original idea, find financial backers who see its marketplace potential, prototype for $5-10 million, focus test, if it proceeds it becomes a $4-10 million dollar/week business, and if it fails to be a hit in nine weeks its dead forever.
We know capitalism, kids.
We know capitalism, kids.
Seriously, if I have another academic think tanker or pundit who's only ever lived off the tit of some cranky mad billionaire lecture me about the virtues of capitalism again, I will flip a table.
You want to know why artists who somehow insanely manage to make a living are so liberal and believe in the social safety net? It's because most of us are reminded daily, *brutally* of the role luck plays in our success. In *everyone's* success.
Creatives are capitalists who managed not to buy our own bullshit. Nobody thinks they've become a psychic divine master of the laws of economics because they lucked out once The market kicks us (or our friends) in the teeth every damn day.
The legs of the stool are talent, hard work and LUCK. And every day, we feel it wobble. And no matter how comfortable, with alarming regularity, we feel it start to tip, and that moment you realize you leaned too far back in the chair kicks in ...
Honest to God, if you can do anything else with your life, do it.
