[Business] Musicians feared the Record Player - Jason Feiffer

<p>Listen to Build for Tomorrow: https://www.jasonfeifer.com/episode/the-best-ways-to-use-a-crisis/ (40ish mins in)<br>Today's twitter discussion: <a href="https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1599890745200377857">https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1599890745200377857</a></p><p><br><strong>Transcript</strong></p><p>So turn to the century, the phonograph, brand</p><p>new innovation, the very first record player, consider how completely insanely</p><p>revolutionary this was, for all of human history, before the phonograph. If you wanted</p><p>to listen to music, there was only one way to do it. And that was to be in front of a</p><p>human being who was playing an instrument. There's no other way. How are you going</p><p>to listen to music? And then this machine comes along and can do it for you, can play</p><p>music. Unbelievable. Consumers didn't believe it at first. Like they literally, they had to</p><p>be shown like, no, there is not a person behind the wall playing music. Like they had to</p><p>be shown. And then once they believed it, they loved it. They brought it home. You</p><p> know who hated this?</p><p><strong>[00:43:45] Jordan Harbinger:</strong> Yeah. I don't know. Musicians?</p><p><strong>[00:43:46] Jason Feifer:</strong> Yeah. Musicians hated it.</p><p><strong>[00:43:48] Jordan Harbinger:</strong> Yeah.</p><p><strong>[00:43:49] Jason Feifer:</strong> Hated it because they saw themselves being replaced here.</p><p>That, you know, they see this new technology doing the thing that they do and they see</p><p>change and they equate change with loss and they say, "We got to stop this," right?</p><p>They pull a margarine. And the leader of the resistance was this guy named John Philip</p><p>Sousa. John Philip Sousa, you may not know his name, but you know his music because</p><p>it's still around today. All the military marches, [Dah-dah-dah-dah] John Philip Sousa.</p><p><strong>[00:44:12] Jordan Harbinger:</strong> You know why we know who he is? Because we have</p><p>recordings of the music.</p><p><stro