There is nothing new under the sun. Peter Brueghel the Older already knew it : big fish eat small fish. Fish eat because they are hungry and want to survive - but eventually they die.
Corporations are very much like fish : they have two major motives to grow :
greed (ever higher profitability) and fear (growth as a way to avoid being gobbled up by even bigger or more aggressive players). In my view, all other explanations are window dressing exercises. And damn the human and social consequences.
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One of my favourite artists ver: Peter Brueghel (he and Bosch). What a conicidink that you pick this pic.
an old view of a modern fact of life ... unfortunately.
What a wonderful piece of art!
Is it a painting or a drawing?
That is a drawing. Probably ink on parchment. Brueghel is indeed top, but Bosch is out of this world!
Hi, Lebbercherrie, nice to meet you. Actually, there are various copies (three at least I think) of this drawing. Ink on paper I think.
One of the copies is in the Albertina in Vienna.
Hey Pablo, I've been thinking about how this piece of work was created, and my more thought-trough answer would be an etch. This would also explain the number of identical copies.
Don't know the Albertina in Vienna, only the one in Brussels.
Hallo Lebbercherrie I will not discuss etch or drawing - you very probably know that much better than I do and I just wrote down what I found on the web (an unforgivable mistake !! I forgot to be a contrarian for a minute or two ...).
But there is an Albertina in Vienna.
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