Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2009-02-16 10:35
Ed Palanker wrote:
> "Subsidies to survive then you can't figure on a sustainable
> business model." Mark, my answer is this, how about our
> automobile and banking industry?
>
> Mark I think you missed my point, or rather I did not make it
> clear enough.
No, I got the point, but when you're looking at industries that are shedding 10,000, 20,000, 30,000 jobs (with the 100,000, 200,000, 300,000 or more indirect jobs), the 150 isn't even a drop in the bucket. The proportion of indirect jobs lost are the same for everyone. My department has lost about 3500 people locally - you can imagine how many stores and restaurants have gone under in the last year.
Many of the large donors and supporters of the arts have been the large industrial companies and their subsidiaries. The support of those 150 people was more akin to "indirect jobs" for them since they relied on 60% of their income in the form of grants, etc.. When companies and families go into survival mode those non-essential services get shut down fast.
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