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Entertainment isn't really an industry though. It produces nothing of real value and relies on being financed by those who do. There is a reason Bollywood is a
by eksemplar 9y ago
Entertainment isn't really an industry though. It produces nothing of real value and relies on being financed by those who do.
There is a reason Bollywood is a more profitable "industry" than Hollywood, and it's not because their product is better. It's because their society actually nets a profit from production that they can then spend on leisure.
If our best and brightest young children become internet celebrities because it made good sense, then there won't be anyone to keep the gears grinding.
Worse than that, on instagram you're still the product being sold even when you're then one being followed.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoI'm not clear on the difference you're asserting between Hollywood and Bollywood.
- handsomechad 9y agoI was racking my brain trying to figure this out as well. someone pray tell
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- Keeeeeeeks 9y agoOne could say the same of lobbying, but there's still a funnel from lobbying straight into government/private sector (and vice versa, depending on who you ask). Whether you like it or not, entertainers produce goods or entertainment-related services within an economy. That's the definition of an industry.
- na85 9y ago99% of the web produces nothing of any value either.
- irahul 9y ago> If our best and brightest young children become internet celebrities because it made good sense, then there won't be anyone to keep the gears grinding. So do you also support not educating a vast majority of children because if everyone aspires to be a white collar worker, where will we get our janitors and garbage men from.