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automation and outsourcing gave lower prices on products for literally everyone
The average price of a home as a percentage of income has not lowered at all. Who cares if you can get a shitty Walmart branded TV that will last for 5 years before you have to throw it away, when you have no house to put it in?
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I think it's mainly hitching on to a pop culture moral outrage, vs an actual pressing issue.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess you think that because you don't know any professional actors. It's hard work but it used to be possible to make a living as a working actor without necessarily being famous. That looks increasingly difficult. There's a lot of skill required to do the job well and those skills aren't just transferable to other work contexts.
There are still people who shoe horses, of course, but not as many by probably a couple of orders of magnitude.
I don't want to seem callous toward actors in particular, but why are they more important than farriers? Hand weavers? People whose job was to pick up buckets of raw sewage from the backs of houses?
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That’s a deal with him and his production company, Happy Madison. He’s not personally pocketing $250 million, and a portion of that will go toward paying actors, crew, and other staff. If any of the internet anecdotes are to be believed, he takes care of his employees.
How much money should Adam Sandler make?
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How much money should Adam Sandler make?
Kylian Mbappe was recently offered $776 MILLION in salary for a 1-year deal as the highest paid soccer (football) player [1]. Jaylen Brown will be making $304 MILLION over 5 years for the Boston Celtics as the highest paid NBA player. Wealth inequality from predominantly ads-based (tv-deals) business models is a cancer to our society. [1]: https://frontofficesports.com/saudi-arabia-reportedly-offers...
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Even if you’re not a shareholder, you’re welcome to discuss and criticize the action with anyone who will listen.
I agree, if you're a shareholder you should feel obligated to - but everyone has the right to discuss whatever they want.
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Don't leave me hanging, given that we are in a "for all the marbles" point in the game of civilization, what's the next move? I want to believe there's something better than, "Stop the world, I want to get off." What is the compelling alternative to this somewhat unrestricted growth we have currently going on? I know there's lots of "if only we just..."s, but what's the implementation plan? How do we install socialis…
Oh you've misunderstood, I'm not a socialist. I do not support writers and creatives who profit from intellectual 'property', they are themselves a part of the problem. I reject the notion that workers are free from blame for their participation in the system. A good first step to solving much of society's problems, including this is to nuke the financial sector from orbit, companies like Netflix and Universal will t…
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Oh you've misunderstood, I'm not a socialist. I do not support writers and creatives who profit from intellectual 'property', they are themselves a part of the problem. I reject the notion that workers are free from blame for their participation in the system. A good first step to solving much of society's problems, including this is to nuke the financial sector from orbit, companies like Netflix and Universal will t…
Thank you for clarifying. Is it difficult to get people on board with the "transhumanist persecution" thing, or do people take to it naturally, in your experience?
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The economy is not zero sum, other people making large sums of money shouldn't make you upset. Those athletes are paid that much because the fans (customers) value them that much.
> other people making large sums of money shouldn't make you upset. Why not? It clearly shows that there is a screw loose. Or put differently: it reminds us of the fundamental truth that in society, people without power get as little as is available to keep them alive and sometimes less, and people with power (in this case, the power of a good negotiating position) get as much as is available to pay them. The world d…
This is wildly false - it's nowhere near a "fundamental truth", this is just the (incredibly warped and distorted) way that you personally see the world.