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Edit: why on earth is this being downvoted? Seriously confused - is something here wrong or controversial?
It's also true that "lo" is seldom used in Spanish and there are almost no neutral nouns (like in german).
I take it to mean that commercial interests are stronger that potential gains enabled by new technological forms of collaboration. We (as a society) are 'choosing' to keep all gains enabled by digital technology private rather than revising the capitalist apparatus which is strained by these new digital possibilities.
Companies need to hire lawyers because we live in a society that places a high value on playing by the rules and regulations that come down (idealistically) from an elected body.
So if I am a company that "has to" hire lawyers and accountants, I only "have to" do so because there are rules in my country about how I (for example) represent my financial situation to unsophisticated investors so they don't lose their shirts.
You can see how that's a different form of "have to" from hiring someone's uncle so your business doesn't get closed by the corrupt government?
Also, I have this perspective in which, given the case that this is a corrupt practice, it ends up as a form of taxation (corrupt taxation, but same thing from an certain business perspective).
And that got me thinking how in "the west" companies have to hire lawyers (and accountants) for legal compliance reasons.
I see a parallel there.
The real future is software, especially composition integrated with DSP. Not aimless generative nonsense based on randomly reshuffling arrays and maybe snapping them to a harmonic grid, but complex, composed architectures of sound.
Some of them may not even have a bass drum on every quarter beat - a bit radical, but who knows what the future holds?
but don't get me wrong, 12-tet is an incredible accomplishment on its own. but it's what it is because of (now obsolete) physical constraints of instrument building.
I've been trying to think about how to go beyond 12 tet for years. I recently read this quote on a (unrelated nothing to do with music) book[1] "So it's a bit like a piano that has a meta-key that lets you add new keys." which summarizes my goal better than I've ever been able to.
[1] https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Don%27t+Teach+Coding%3A+Until+Yo...
however it is harder to do, takes longer to get there, and there are some tough patches on the way.
because quality takes time and effort (and always encounters failure along its path). it's just more expensive to do things that way.