» The ROM CAN… well, pretend to be accessible • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape
Great (short) article by Leah Sandals on Spacing Toronto re. Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and its admissions pricing/ policies. Best of all is the comments thread, where several people really let T.O. have it in terms of pointing out how dreadfully expensive it is, especially compared to places like New York City, where even private museums have policies that allow the less-well-off to have free (or pay what you can) admission to museums/ institutions on a regular basis.
Canada has a democracy deficit, and this article (plus comments) shows how and where it plays out.
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FREE LOVE
Available as a 15-page printable PDF, too, this is the website version. From the intro:
"FREE LOVE: the ongoing rise of free, valuable stuff that's available to consumers online and offline. From AirAsia tickets to Wikipedia, and from diapers to music.
FREE LOVE thrives on an all-out war for consumers' ever-scarcer attention and the resulting new business models and marketing techniques, but also benefits from the ever-decreasing costs of producing physical goods, the post-scarcity dynamics of the online world (and the related avalanche of free content created by attention-hungry members of GENERATION C), the many C2C marketplaces enabling consumers to swap instead of spend, and an emerging recycling culture.
Expect FREE LOVE to become an integral if not essential part of doing business."
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