thread: 2012-03-03 : Ben Lehman: Caveat Scriba: Margret Weis Productions
On 2012-03-04, walkerp wrote:
I am very much against the disparate power of the corporation in our economy and society today.
That being said, treating MWP like some giant corporation is erroneous.
They are a tiny little company made up of individuals that many of us know online and in some cases personally.
What do you think is going on at MWP, Ben? A deliberate attempt to take freelancers' money? The tone of your editorial makes it sound like you are accusing them of malice.
What if they are just so busy that they haven't had the time to process the freelancers' invoices? What if they are so low on cash right now that if they pay their invoices, they won't be able to pay another vendor whose work is crucial to the books getting out?
At the scale we are dealing with here, I think it is a more productive move to look at MWP and the freelancers as being part of the same community, working together to get the books out there and sell them.
That position should only last so long and a lot of it is based on MWP's existing reputation as a pretty responsible company.
But for the time being, how does it help turning this into some kind of big controversy where we are fighting against the man?
