>On the other hand, why does society need movies that cost $100 million to make? (Much of that being what the stars cost.) I personally like some of these big

>On the other hand, why does society need movies that cost $100 million to make? (Much of that being what the stars cost.) I personally like some of these big budget movies. This reminds me of when I was talking on reddit about OSS games and if it would work if everyone did OSS games. I countered to another comment that modern games require a lot of money because artists have to put in a lot of work to make the music and textures and images, coders have to put out a lot of lines of code, etc. To which the reply was "I don't like these games anyway, I prefer text-based games without any of that." That reply isn't wrong per-se, it just misses the target. Maybe you question why it's necessary or you simply don't enjoy them. But other people do and taking away something they enjoy needs to be weighed against why you're taking it away.