Ms. Mercedes: The website is ready.
Zoltan: Great! What do you think about it?
Ms. Mercedes: About “bagatellography.com”? It is great.
Zoltan: You don’t seem very enthusiastic.
Ms.Mercedes: If I’m honest, I would say: this is a marginal area of photography, that only a few people are interested in.
Zoltan: But some are. Isn’t that so? If only a handful of people care, does that make it worthless?
Ms. Mercedes: Who knows… Anyway, can we just stop for a moment and talk about your so-called “business model”? It is strange. Are you seriously quitting your job to take pictures that are of no importance to anyone else? And you want to be paid for it?
Zoltan: I’m just collecting donations.
Ms. Mercedes: This is what I’m talking about. There is no product or service you provide. I mean I see no scenario, where you could have a reasonable expectation of getting paid. And this “public domain” nonsense…
Zoltan: Don’t hold back, say it!
Ms. Mercedes: The fact that, what you’ve been working on for years is freely available to everyone, goes against the basic principles of capitalism. I don’t think it works.
Zoltan: But “I’m standing here and can’t do otherwise”…
Ms. Mercedes: Cute. A quote from Martin Luther King?
Zoltan: Nope, just Martin Luther.
Ms. Mercedes: But King was the king…