The Planet Money podcast, who are always great, have done a fascinating piece on the business model and economics of piracy (section starting from 09:30):
Pirates have timesheets
They follow up on some of the business relationships created some weeks later:
And three baby camels.
They have lots more on many other subjects, including the position of a clown as unsecured creditor of an insolvent shopping centre. I hope she gets her money, apparently very tiny creditors like that sometimes do; the big ones pay them off because it makes a lot of sense to make the voting simpler. And I think it's a good feature of the US system that it gives them an incentive to do that.
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Economics of pirates and clowns
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Talk about unlikely places where to find a timesheet...unusual, interesting and informative podcast. Now that I have the knowledge I only need a sword and eye patch to set up my new business enterprise. What about a tango pirate, in which case a pair of sharp stiletto shoes might suffice. Would that be enought to get me any ramson payment? ;-P
Although in one sense there might be plenty of tango pirates around, to be quite honest I don't think there's enough money in the business to attract that level of professionalism.
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