To be fairer nobody asked them to produce content. They decided to create it because it’s cheaper that lixensing the actual good stuff.
To be fairer nobody asked them to produce content. They decided to create it because it’s cheaper that lixensing the actual good stuff.
aidan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
eh some of it is good
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Hence why copyright was originally in the 10-20 year range.
Movie star isn’t supposed to be a dream job that makes you fabulously rich, but a decent living.
Interestingly, musical artists who work off the web will do exactly that: Tour and make hundreds of thousands instead of millions (in the aughts and 2010s, so pre-inflation), rather than rolling the dice with the record labels.
aidan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I mean, supposed to according to who?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Capitalist ideologues, for one. I remember in Macroeconomics class that wealth desparity will destroy your economy and then your civilization if you let it get out of hand.
So when (for example) we have eight guys that own more than the poorer half of the world population, that’s a bad sign for every economy on the planet, and is going to cause way more problems than merely discontent and social unrest.