Will Wilkinson - Latest Comments in Are We Desperate Yet?

Re: Are We Desperate Yet?

R.J. Lehmann — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:24:42 -0000

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.

Re: Are We Desperate Yet?

Jamie Mellway — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:42:30 -0000

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.

Re: Are We Desperate Yet?

Matthew Yglesias — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:49:20 -0000

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.

Re: Are We Desperate Yet?

nofrontin — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:23:57 -0000

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