It's all about adapting. Adapting? It’s easy to say being from a place that sets global trends (or annihilates long valued systems, depends what side you’re on). Yes, I’m speaking of the place referred to in some entries here as home, New York.
It maybe difficult to understand your options from here but that’s likely because several people might not fully comprehend where your limits are, what you consider unethical, immoral, illegal, impossible, unlikely, ultimately just not desirable to your ideal utopia of having your own (God given?) space to practice your art while earning an income.
Key point is “earning an income”.
Sure, you may do it mostly for the love of it but there’s the income factor involved and if there’s money to be made, there’s competition and in most cases, competition is bad for your business, sometimes to the market if unregulated (which yours is).
It’s hardly “unfair” that the Senegalese and the Bangladeshis, who come from a country much poorer than US or Italy, have adapted to today’s global market of commercial crap demand by catering to the less wealthy or spoiled by providing a lower quality yet similar products to that of Gucci. I know some artisans with 1st world education and experience in numerous other fields who still keep getting in the way of the people with no choice than making a living off of cheap knock-off fashion products. (just flipping the coin to see what’s on the other side)
From a rights perspective I see little difference between the Senegalese Gucci people and the artisans so I fail to thing either should get better treatment. Both are making money without giving the state a cut (you can’t pay me rent, go elsewhere). That’s really not the complicated, nothing new. Get legitimatized, or look out for la polizia boot.
What I don’t get is, you have several other options and you’re still doing what you’re doing so how bad can it be? What’s the big complaint about? Obviously this new found dislike for the artisan’s axis of evil (Senegal, Bangladesh and China) is just part of what make the whole experience interesting so don’t go letting the American in you influence your actions, as it turns out it’s not that easy to go to war with people and walk away. Who knew?!
I really have no opinion of how to make you passion a sustainable source of income without turning it into a business involving partnerships, simplest being with a citizen for permit, although you’re likely not to go that route considering your quick dismissal of the permit suggestion.
Maybe negotiating with licensed organizations (for or non for profit) branch out to create street fairs with tent registrations restricting piracy. You know, don’t just be part of a fair, arrange the damn thing yourself, or are you no longer an IndiQueen!
I can go on forever about what a person with your knowledge and capability can do but that may just be a waste of script. By what I’ve read you’re on a path you’re American family’s too disconnected from to understand or even possibly influence. Unless that was just some more of that “America is sooo evil” sentiment that quite frankly, even we democrats are starting to think is getting a bit old already.
Now without further ado, I must return to my brain wash therapy.
Oh a permit! Did I forget to mention I am illegal here? And even if I wasn't a permit here you can get maybe if you have a disability and can't work a regular job and they take enought pity on you which can take a long time and alot of fighting. For a vendor's license I would have to pay the kind of taxes (if I was legal) that I would only afford to pay if I start to sell things bought in wholesale because 4 hands don't fill a shop, or I can go to India or So. America and buy handmade things there and sell, like most people do. My problem there is that handmade work from third world countries like for exemple, silver in India and coconut and seed and wire jewelry in south america is mostly made by slaves (people who get nothing or close to nothing for their work) alot of them children. This is why a permit or a license is so dificult. Where I can get them, and I had in the past (Amsterdam, Las palmas of Gran Canaria), I get them, but it's usually a miracle.
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It's all about adapting.
Adapting? It’s easy to say being from a place that sets global trends (or annihilates long valued systems, depends what side you’re on). Yes, I’m speaking of the place referred to in some entries here as home, New York. It maybe difficult to understand your options from here but that’s likely because several people might not fully comprehend where your limits are, what you consider unethical, immoral, illegal, impossible, unlikely, ultimately just not desirable to your ideal utopia of having your own (God given?) space to practice your art while earning an income. Key point is “earning an income”. Sure, you may do it mostly for the love of it but there’s the income factor involved and if there’s money to be made, there’s competition and in most cases, competition is bad for your business, sometimes to the market if unregulated (which yours is). It’s hardly “unfair” that the Senegalese and the Bangladeshis, who come from a country much poorer than US or Italy, have adapted to today’s global market of commercial crap demand by catering to the less wealthy or spoiled by providing a lower quality yet similar products to that of Gucci. I know some artisans with 1st world education and experience in numerous other fields who still keep getting in the way of the people with no choice than making a living off of cheap knock-off fashion products. (just flipping the coin to see what’s on the other side) From a rights perspective I see little difference between the Senegalese Gucci people and the artisans so I fail to thing either should get better treatment. Both are making money without giving the state a cut (you can’t pay me rent, go elsewhere). That’s really not the complicated, nothing new. Get legitimatized, or look out for la polizia boot. What I don’t get is, you have several other options and you’re still doing what you’re doing so how bad can it be? What’s the big complaint about? Obviously this new found dislike for the artisan’s axis of evil (Senegal, Bangladesh and China) is just part of what make the whole experience interesting so don’t go letting the American in you influence your actions, as it turns out it’s not that easy to go to war with people and walk away. Who knew?! I really have no opinion of how to make you passion a sustainable source of income without turning it into a business involving partnerships, simplest being with a citizen for permit, although you’re likely not to go that route considering your quick dismissal of the permit suggestion. Maybe negotiating with licensed organizations (for or non for profit) branch out to create street fairs with tent registrations restricting piracy. You know, don’t just be part of a fair, arrange the damn thing yourself, or are you no longer an IndiQueen! I can go on forever about what a person with your knowledge and capability can do but that may just be a waste of script. By what I’ve read you’re on a path you’re American family’s too disconnected from to understand or even possibly influence. Unless that was just some more of that “America is sooo evil” sentiment that quite frankly, even we democrats are starting to think is getting a bit old already. Now without further ado, I must return to my brain wash therapy.