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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlArrrrrr
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    3 days ago

    Yeah, it’s really hard and often impossible to support the artists that you want.

    A good movie, but most of the people involved made fixed wages (no sales) whilst 90+% of the protis goes to the studio and the lead actor and director (+ credited people that never even saw the project, but you know, money favours)?
    Yeah, your money vote does not go to what you want to support/sponsor.

    A publisher is selling a game that it got by buying a studio & getting rid of the devs? What’s their added value? That’s just capital yields, like landlording.


  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlArrrrrr
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    I have to say I mostly disagree with your points.
    At that kind of profit margins only the dividends get financed.

    And I do spent the money on donations (FOSS devs, Wiki, random research, animal stuff), tho I haven’t though of donating to unions. I didn’t even know that is a thing. It isn’t where I live.

    I understand they need to be financed, but the whole point of unions is to get a better bargaining position & thus finance. That shouldn’t need money. You dont donate to the strog guy that already has the power, you donate to the poor. Ot perhaps like some sort of semi-political parties that help organise workers? But we have regulators that strongly encourage unions at certain company size or sector.

    What you can donate to or finance is smol studios. That’s boycotting the big studios, regardless of content consumption.




  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlArrrrrr
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    3 days ago

    No. You sound apologetic towards shareholders.
    Morals are not the same as laws, lol.
    And when something is part of the everyday life like this it isn’t really the best thing to stay out of.

    Also, boycotting something I wouldn’t have payed for doesn’t make sense. I don’t even understand what you mean.

    And what you call selfishness is the boycott here. That takes away from the megacorps (and not from the artists).

    I don’t wanna boycott people making series, I want way-too-big publishers & co to die.


  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlArrrrrr
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    3 days ago

    Yes, it really does come to morals.

    Like, would I really feel ok supporting an industry like that? With their shitty wages, horrible copyright practices, just evil corporate practices (nepotism, extortion, sexism, etc) - not exclusive to entertaining industry, but I can def chose not to support & fuel the suffering.

    I want & do pay for small studio projects, FOSS initiatives, etc.
    Let’s normalise that so that such support may grow and change the world.

    Long live there *arr services & their contribution to worlds culture & humanity through equality/comradeship.



  • I’ve just remembered that like 10 years ago my go-to answer for people bothering me at work with my headphones on just to ask me what Im listening to (wtf??), was just that - “To the Communist Manifesto ofc!”

    Sometimes I would spice it up with like a Communist Manifesto - Mein Campf remix or last Sundays black mass I missed, praised be Lucy, the bringer of light.

    I’ve def trained people not to ask me stupid or personal questions unless they actually mean it.
    I don’t understand nor know how to do small talk, ok?