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Actually, he's not advocating bargaining of any firmness. He's saying that one's personal brand (or dignity, or whatever) should have a minimum price that is not necessarily $0.01. In his case, he's decided that the amount he'd earn with advertising isn't worth the cheapening of his brand it would entail.

It's shocking to me how many people commenting here (plus Jacques) totally misunderstood Sebastian's post.



It depends on how you read it I guess.

This debate I think is based on a perception bias and the failure of language to communicate something like that.

I see something. Jacques sees something else. Sebastian sees another paradigm entirely and you see some portion of sebastian's paradigm.




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