Okay so call me a Thatcherite prick if you must, be I honestly think there’s no reasonable time to strike.

Striking is like blackmail. “I’m not coming in to work until you give me what I want. I’ll disrupt your business, and everyone else’s, I don’t give a shit. Until you give me what I want.” It’s a ridiculously selfish attitude.

When the Unions for Transport for London workers and Royal Mail workers decide to strike, they’re not only disrupting TFL/RM, they’re putting the whole Capital, if not the whole Country on hold for their own selfish purposes.

If you want more money – get a better job. It’s just that simple. If you don’t have the qualifications, flipping earn them. If for some reason it’s too late for you to re-qualify (which I understand may be the case), then I’m sorry but that’s your business. Don’t make it mine.

When a Union strikes because of reform, that’s even more frustrating. You’re then not only holding back businesses, but you’re holding back our society. If the Royal Mail has some ideas to improve the service, but this means more robots and less workers, then so be it. Yes there may be some job losses, but there may be a whole load more created in the robot manufacturing warehouses.

You have to remember, this is not your business. I don’t have the right to come into your business and tell you how to run it – so why should you have the right to tell them? If you want to be the decision maker, run your own damn  business.

I’d fire the lot of them. Simples. The Royal Mail have hired 30,000 temp workers to maintain the service whilst the strikes take place. If I were in the top position, I’d fire all the workers on strike and hire the temp workers.

In this recession there are too many people out of work, trying desperately to find a job. Then we have these idiots striking and QQing. If you don’t like the job, give someone else a chance.

Striking hurts the economy. The last RMT strike (TFL workers) cost London businesses £100,000,000. We’re in a flipping recession – think about it!

Striking is a lame tool, that’s over-abused today in the UK (and France for that matter), I think we need to clamp down. For anyone who disagrees with this statement, I end this post with two words: Bob Crow

Just imagine in a few years, if Spotify becomes ‘the way’ that people listen to music. Everyone around the world listens and shares music via Spotify – which is very possible. For years we’ve relied on mp3s and CDs. Let’s face it, nobody buys physical media any more, and with services like Spotify, piracy is becoming less of an issue.

The music industry has failed to modernise. They failed to provide people with what we want: easy access to music, on any device of our chosing. They tried to tie us down and it will be the death of them.

Now, back to Spotify ruling the world. Once Spotify become popular enough, I predict they’ll start going directly to artists, more and more, to arrange royalty deals. Of course is Spotify are dealing directly with artists, this cuts out the evil middle man – the record labels.

Spotify (and/or similar music services) could be the end of the music industry as we know it. By killing off the record labels completely, they make music about music again. Give control back to the artists. After all, record labels are not needed for distribution any more.

Of course there’s still the issue of marketing (which is about the only service record labels seem to offer these days), which will also solve it’s self in due course.

I look forward to a time with no Record Labels and in turn, no RIAA!