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Have you ever heard of Andrei Tarkovsky before
Nope.
Sad!
Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking
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Re: Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking
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> Because they were propaganda Quite a sweeping generalization. Besides, many Hollywood movies are good in spite of being rather excessive propaganda. > today's Hollywood execs don't understand story, don't understand viewers, and don't care to build that kind of understanding If someone is running a profitable business in X, I'd pause before concluding they are ignorant fools. It's a competitive business, the fools…
That didn't used to be the only job of the CEO, though. CEO pay used to be roughly 4 times the pay of the average worker, not 30 to 40 times the pay. It also used to be the CEO's job to ensure the health of his company in the form of the health of his workforce including their ability to stay in the middle class. Publicly traded companies end up being driven by perverse short-term incentives.
> CEO pay used to be roughly 4 times the pay of the average worker, not 30 to 40 times the pay.
When you have $100 billion subject to his decisions, do you really want to cheap out and not get the best you can find? Take a look at Nadella's reign at Microsoft. The value of the company increase ONE THOUSAND PERCENT under his leadership. As a long term MSFT shareholder, I have no problem with his compensation.
Besides, his compensation is coming out of MY pocket, not the employees. The shareholders pay his salary.
> Publicly traded companies end up being driven by perverse short-term incentives.
They don't grow if they are driven by short-term incentives, they collapse. Do you really think that companies grow into the S&P500 by sabotaging their prospects?
> including their ability to stay in the middle class
Worker pay was and is determined by the Law of Supply & Demand, not some expectation of the CEO.
Re: Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking
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If Hollywood wants to full body scan me so my likeness becomes famous forever, I'm all for it. Fly me down, give me a day pass to Disneyland, and I'm good.
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Re: Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking
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Sorry dang... instead of calling Walter a bootlicker, would it have been more acceptable to post something like the following?
"Walter has a noted tendency to come racing into any thread involving labor disputes, stumbling over himself to defend the bosses and pointing out that the lazy layabout workers should be happy they're getting anything at all, and this instance is no different."
Basically, is it the tone, or the content of the message? I'll adjust as needed.
Re: Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking
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The kids are just as tired as many of the adults of watching super hero x version y movies with a smattering of Tom Cruise action version z. I am hopeful that Oppenheimer will be interesting … The feigned move toward AI generated content would likely make things worse, providing bizarre fake Tom Cruise scripts generated from old real Tom Cruise scripts.
The numbers aren't really supporting this claim, though? They continue to pull in record crowds. The past few years were hit hard, but we have a solid reason for that. Most everything else will be secondary. Not non-existent, but not the primary driver. Even the concern over AI generated content seems odd to me. Video games have shown that complete photo realism is not needed to attract ever growing numbers of consum…
I just watched the latest Mission Impossible and it’s quite possible that an AI would do a better job than what I witnessed. Movies like that are ripe for AI and will probably still make money, but I am saddened by AI likely increasing the trend of similar unoriginal content.
Resignation that my taste for original content is not shared by the average movie consumer is humbling.
Re: Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking
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Sorry dang... instead of calling Walter a bootlicker, would it have been more acceptable to post something like the following? "Walter has a noted tendency to come racing into any thread involving labor disputes, stumbling over himself to defend the bosses and pointing out that the lazy layabout workers should be happy they're getting anything at all, and this instance is no different." Basically, is it the tone, or…
That's still too snarky and too personal. Why not just make a better argument? or, if that's not worth your time, downvote and move on.
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Fiat currency and the central banks were the direct result of the boom-bust cycle.
Fiat currency is the result of trying to finance WW1. The propaganda reason was to even out the boom-bust cycle, of course that promise was never fulfilled.
The US only left the Gold Standard in the Nixon administration.
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They’re stuffed with content, but much of the content is of poor quality. The good stuff everyone has seen, and you can attract new viewers with a new show that is good.
They have 30-40 years worth of content. I agree, majority is bad. But there is still plenty of stuff to watch. Plus, rewatching some old great show often is more rewarding than consuming all this new drek.
That old content is not on Netflix, or if it is is quickly disappears for "rights" reasons. Even more so now with every company coming out with its special streaming service.