Comments on: Go, read: What The Siegel Case Should Mean http://comics212.net/2008/03/31/go-read/ Never Safe For Work Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:37:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bitter Matt http://comics212.net/2008/03/31/go-read/comment-page-1/#comment-58094 Bitter Matt Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:57:12 +0000 http://comics212.net/2008/03/31/go-read/#comment-58094 I don't know. It -should- be obvious, but... while I feel like I'm stepping in front of the steamroller here... it seems to me that, here in the U.S. at any rate, arrangements where the profit from labor enriches business owners, rather than laborers, are the norm rather than an exception. Comic book publishing certainly presents some scandalously egregious examples of this. Nonetheless, I can't help wondering if some of the assumptions underpinning our interpretation of a capitalist economy are more to blame than the fact that "for 70 years, Superman said it was okay." I quite agree that it's lamentable that the creators of Superman got the thin end of the wedge. I wonder, however, whether the laudable demands for reform might at least gesture towards a broader context. I don’t know. It -should- be obvious, but… while I feel like I’m stepping in front of the steamroller here… it seems to me that, here in the U.S. at any rate, arrangements where the profit from labor enriches business owners, rather than laborers, are the norm rather than an exception.

Comic book publishing certainly presents some scandalously egregious examples of this. Nonetheless, I can’t help wondering if some of the assumptions underpinning our interpretation of a capitalist economy are more to blame than the fact that “for 70 years, Superman said it was okay.”

I quite agree that it’s lamentable that the creators of Superman got the thin end of the wedge. I wonder, however, whether the laudable demands for reform might at least gesture towards a broader context.

]]> By: Hugh Stewart http://comics212.net/2008/03/31/go-read/comment-page-1/#comment-58088 Hugh Stewart Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:14:29 +0000 http://comics212.net/2008/03/31/go-read/#comment-58088 I wanted to give him a hundred Internet High-Fives after reading that piece. It's a heck of a thing. The thing that really frustrates me is that you'd think (and hope) that sentiments like this wouldn't have to be so insightful. You'd hope that it would be obvious to anybody. I wanted to give him a hundred Internet High-Fives after reading that piece. It’s a heck of a thing.

The thing that really frustrates me is that you’d think (and hope) that sentiments like this wouldn’t have to be so insightful. You’d hope that it would be obvious to anybody.

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