The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.
The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.