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[ edited to address a ton of grammatical and formatting mistakes ] Lots of comments about how Dave Chapelle presents his position and the context in which he p
by throwaway201606 6y ago
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Lots of comments about how Dave Chapelle presents his position and the context in which he presents his position. The emotion quality of it all.
The is very little commentary about the core message of his rant - and Ben's comments.
Truth told, it should not be surprising.
The issues at hand are emotional ones about morals, justice and doing the right thing.
They are difficult issue to tackle and require taking subjective positions.
They do not lend themselves to a logical, intellectual and quantitative data-driven dissection.
He does however makes an excellent point from moral, social and justice-based perspective. He is holding media distribution companies at-large to account, and he is doing it from a qualitative perspective.
I suspect we will see more and more of this happening in the corporate world.
Whether companies have, or will acquire, the capacity and fortitude to tackle these issues is now up to them. The idea that profit cannot be the primary and only motive. Those that do will likely find it a rewarding approach in the long run.
What Dave is doing here is linking 'qualitative' issues to 'quantitative' results (money) in a very specific and effective way by, in his words "getting between a man and his paper".
- comeondude 6y agoInteresting ... I think it’s just a matter of respect. We have the ability to shape and build any system we want. I’ve worked in the arts and people running the system don’t give a shit about the human factor, it’s like a machine run amok. Maybe it’s a matter of not being greedy and trusting that there’s enough to go around. Decision makers have conscious choice to figure out how to make things better for everybody. A tale as old as humanity.
- jjeaff 6y agoI think there are also some points brought up by Chapelle that deserve quantitative legal scrutiny. Coercion can invalidate a contract. Also, contracts that are extremely one sided can be legally challenged or that require no consideration from one of the parties. Additionally, contracts based on false information can be invalidated. If I'm starving and I sign a contract to pay all of my future earnings for a plate of food, no court is going to hold up that contract. Obviously, the methods used by these big companies are a higher and more complex level of coercion. But I think they deserve some scrutiny in this regard.