DISQUS

Will Wilkinson: Are We Desperate Yet?

  • nofrontin · 3 years ago
    Hi Will,

    I just wanted to say I loved your response to Michael Brendan Dougherty's post on "morality" and markets.

    - a libertarian from sioux city
  • Matthew Yglesias · 3 years ago
    Dude, your math is wrong. If the Pitchfork list is 10 percent Canadian, then that means US acts outnumber Canuck acts 9:1, but the US population outnumbers the Canadian population 10:1. Perhaps more to the point, many non-Canadian bands aren't American either. 10 percent Canadianness (assuming that's the right number) is a lot of Canada.

    For indie rock promotion purposes, at any rate, the relevant feature of the Canadian system is simply that it severs the employment-medicine link rather than its various other aspects.
  • Jamie Mellway · 3 years ago
    I don't follow this at all. What does socialized medicine have to do with making music? Correlation doesn't imply causality.

    A better bit of Canadian socialism to blame is CanCon. Perhaps there are good music scenes in Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto.
  • R.J. Lehmann · 3 years ago
    Even if I had no preconceived opinions about socialized medicine, I'd hardly consider it a recomendation that it would help subsidize a proliferation of whiney and tuneless crackas who can't play their instruments.