terça-feira, março 04, 2014

O sonho de um anarco-libertário

Este artigo "The wine business is ripe for disruption, and this man is doing it" é um bálsamo para um anarco-libertário como eu, um apóstolo de Mongo que acredita no bottom-up.
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Tantos sectores económicos maduros para esta revolução da ligação directa entre o produtor e o consumidor, maduros para a aposta no "unscale":
"“There are only two important people in the wine business—the winemaker and the wine drinker. Right now, they’re both getting screwed.”"
E o mesmo se pode dizer dos lavradores, dos pastores, dos pescadores, dos artesãos, das PMEs... se a distribuição extrai mais valor do que o que ajuda a co-criar, está a mais.
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Claro que o texto tem coisas que não aprecio, como a natural incapacidade de um "accountant" para o value-based pricing, continua mergulhado no cost-based pricing:
"The astonishing thing about the wine business is that there isn’t a bottle in the world that can’t be made for about £10 [$17]. So there isn’t a bottle of wine that should cost more than £20. That’s what we want to do—take wines that others are charging £50, £100, or £300 and sell them for £20." 
Mas adiante:
"In many ways, the Naked Wines model is to wine what Made.com is to furniture, Everlane is to fashion, Warby Parker is to eyeglasses, and other disruptive direct-sales sites are to a wide range of other consumer industries. To varying degrees, these firms bypass distributors and other middle-men, eschew traditional marketing practices in favor of social media campaigns and word-of-mouth buzz, and generally bring producers closer to consumers.
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Ideally, this benefits both sides—the markups that once went to distributors, retailers, and other gatekeepers are instead shared between maker and buyer. Put another way, they are no longer getting screwed.
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Echoing the farm-to-table movement in the food industry, Naked Wines treats wine and winemaker as a package—the appeal of the maker is integral to the allure of what they make (and is branded as such.) Artisanal, small-batch production by one-man bands also taps the same zeitgeist that draws people to sites like Etsy to buy handcrafts."

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