If you invested a substantial sum of money to invent a zero-emission, 500-MPG engine that ran on decomposed yard waste and droplets of elephant piss, and automakers and consumers insisted on obtaining your engines for free, what would you do?  

Would you give away your engine, or move up the value chain to realize a profit by manufacturing a proprietary car for your engine?

If it were up to me, I would hoard my engines, build the car and corner the market on elephants.  End of story; everyone else can pound sand.  I would invite every component maker on earth to build accessories for my 500-MPG car and I would price it to monopolize the worldwide auto market.  

Upon saving the earth from global warming and after buying up the shuttered factories of my former competitors for pennies, I would proceed to make billions from breeding and nurturing my heard of elephants; as I would be hoping to gently squeeze the piss out of them for years to come.  

 
At this point, record labels need to start practicing aggressive, eco-friendly, elephant-correct, Ayn Rand capitalism to survive and thrive.

Right now, all the other automakers are using your 500-MPG engines for pennies; you haven’t built a single car; and you have shown over and over that you know very little about nurturing elephants.

The cars that everyone are driving now are iTunes, Rhapsody, Yahoo, MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Grooveshark, Purevolume, Imeem, iLike, ProjectPlaylist, Last.FM, etc, etc, etc, and the number of “car companies” using or negotiating to use your 500-MPG engines grows daily.

You should understand that without your 500-MPG engines, without the use of your master recordings, these companies are just building Škodas.  

It wouldn’t be so bad if you realized that as far as the elephants are concerned (Radiohead and NIN get it): these other carmakers are adding a layer that further reduces the pennies you share with them, and therefore it would be better to cut you out altogether; as you don’t build the car that everyone drives, and those others do.

Before it’s too late, it’s time for you to manufacture a car that exclusively uses your engines.  Give the people what they want and in the process grind your competitors into acquisition meat.  Your car should be FREE and every component and widget maker on earth should be able to profitably build accessories upon your platform (ala FaceBook).

Five years from now, the competition will be between elephant herdsmen.  There will be four to six major “carmakers” and they will all be running elephant farms; so when you have one of the only car designs that run on yard waste and elephant piss, sign as many elephants as possible to generous deals that motivate them to pee often.

Readjust, Coke doesn’t give their formula to Pepsi and Google doesn’t give their algorithms to Yahoo.  It’s the same thing here; your roster is your secret sauce, stop giving it to your competitors.  The other “car companies” are not your “bottlers”; they are the competition that enables the elephants to sell their waste without you.

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