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Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy

monarch@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I will never understand people who identify as leftist that refuse to understand that under our current economic model people require money to survive and if they do not get money for doing their creative work they might not be able to continue making that work.

It is not selfish to want to be payed for working on something like a video that in some cases takes hundreds of man hours of work to complete. There is a reason that the quality of content available on youtube has gone up massively. Say what you want about the writing but there is no way that something like helluva boss could ever have been made entirely online before youtube.

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slackassassin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s because some people don’t actually support workers, especially creative workers, regardless or their political identity.

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nyamlae@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It is not selfish to want to be payed for working on something like a video that in some cases takes hundreds of man hours of work to complete

Yes, it is, if your desire to get paid causes you to remain on corporate-controlled social media, to the detriment of society.

Not to mention, plenty of people can and do put hundreds of hours of work into projects that they don’t ask for payment for.

“Content creators” who get paid through advertisements are class traitors whose interests are aligned with the capitalist class. They will fuck over society to make a buck for themselves.

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- TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  “you’re not a leftist unless you have daddies money to support you wasting 100 hours on a 20m video.” Certainly is… a take. But anyways, I’m not even talking about being leftist or not or whatever. I just mean, people. Period. It’s not selfish to want to get paid for making something. People need money to live.
  
  Are there content creators who fucking suck? Yes. But there’s also ones that don’t. They’re allowed to make money.
  
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  - nyamlae@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    you’re not a leftist unless you have daddies money to support you wasting 100 hours on a 20m video.
    
    I didn’t say that, though. Clearly it’s not worth engaging with you.
    
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- monarch@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Do you think the same thing about people who work for basically any company? Because they are way more directly responsible for the actions of their corporation than the average person that makes 50k a year between AdSense and sponsors.
  
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  - nyamlae@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No, my point specifically relates to creative work. You said in your comment:
    
    under our current economic model people require money to survive and if they do not get money for doing their creative work they might not be able to continue making that work.
    
    This is false, basically. They can do other types of work. Creative work can be done without making money for it. Plenty of people have a day job and make creative work in their free time. The same option is not available for most other types of work, such as government, doctors, lawyers, etc. If you try to do these types of jobs outside of the framework of a regulated business, you’ll get the book thrown at you.
    
    The issue I’m getting at isn’t “are you responsible for the actions you take to make a living”. Rather, I’m getting at the issue of “does creative work require becoming an employee of a capitalist company, thereby siding with its shareholders in having a vested interest in increasing that company’s profits regardless of the societal damage caused?”
    
    The answer to that question is a resounding “no”. Creatives need to grow a spine and get a day job.
    
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    monarch@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Why specifically creatives? There are so many other professions that are more important to someones everyday life and no one seems to hold the same vitriol at them valuing their time that people do for creatives. I don’t see people suggesting that nurses get a day job and do nursing on the side.
    
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