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• surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You must be joking. The people who make any money producing online content are a very, very small minority.

  And if people didn’t have to work 60 hour weeks to barely make enough to survive, we’d get a lot more creative content. All that would change is there wouldn’t be some talentless suit exploiting it.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You wouldn’t be getting any tv shows or movies. You’d be getting YouTube style stuff……like you do now.

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    • surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People put shows and movies on YouTube already. You’re just not getting corporate backed media on there.

      I’m not sure what role you believe capitalists have in creating media, but it’s clearly disproportionate.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You think you’d be getting Avengers: Doomsday in a socialist/communist world?

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• boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t even consider the Soviet Union to be very successful socialism, but here you go.

  And inb4 “you only get the state approved media” - well right now you only get the capitalists approved media (so same-same) and also in a functioning socialist society, for bigger art projects like film and TV show, projects get funding from government without being government-initiated. I mean it was the same in the soviet union, but since it was a dictatorship, the government was picky in what was approved.

  In fact, best thing about government funding is that there’s a lot less pressure to be commercially successful than with corporate funding. Commercial flops can still have cultural value and the fun thing is, a socialist government as the source of your funding can see that as a value unto itself, whereas a corporation has no value for culture other than the money it can bring in.

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