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Corporate profits soared, but not the profits that get paid to artists. Wholehearted support for the efforts by the WGA, SAG, and the related unions, to stop “

Corporate profits soared, but not the profits that get paid to artists. Wholehearted support for the efforts by the WGA, SAG, and the related unions, to stop “big corporate media” fucking over everyone in the arts even if it won’t help the average Spotify streamer today or tomorrow, but perhaps eventually it will further into the future…

gumballindie 3y ago
Indeed. As a side note i wasnt praising corporations, quite the contrary. Some of the things provided are good but overall corporations are detrimental to the society, environment, public health, security and the economy. Both in the music industry and outside.
- techdragon 3y ago
  I didn’t even for a moment think you were praising them, it’s just so easy for people to forget the percentage breakdowns behind the PR pieces these companies put out. I’m sure I’ve done it myself too often enough. Corporations aren’t inherently an evil concept… the rubicon was corporate personhood. The idea that corporations have equivalent rights to people unless we legislate that they don’t… that’s the mind poison… the rot that has slowly eaten into society and for more than a hundred years has been backing up capitalism and corporatism and all the greed and corruption with the subtle backstop of thought terminating cliches like “people have rights and corporations are people so they have rights” and normal people don’t want to learn a mountain of history to unpack the lies and bullshit… And companies have the money to hire the best PR… so they have done a pretty good job convincing everyone on the sorts of subjects that are in the corporations best interests… sadly.
  - jacquesm 3y ago
    > the rubicon was corporate personhood. Agreed, big mistake there. And next to impossible to fix now.

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Corporate profits soared, but not the profits that get paid to artists. Wholehearted support for the efforts by the WGA, SAG, and the related unions, to stop “

by techdragon 3y ago

gumballindie 3y ago
Indeed. As a side note i wasnt praising corporations, quite the contrary. Some of the things provided are good but overall corporations are detrimental to the society, environment, public health, security and the economy. Both in the music industry and outside.
- techdragon 3y ago
  I didn’t even for a moment think you were praising them, it’s just so easy for people to forget the percentage breakdowns behind the PR pieces these companies put out. I’m sure I’ve done it myself too often enough. Corporations aren’t inherently an evil concept… the rubicon was corporate personhood. The idea that corporations have equivalent rights to people unless we legislate that they don’t… that’s the mind poison… the rot that has slowly eaten into society and for more than a hundred years has been backing up capitalism and corporatism and all the greed and corruption with the subtle backstop of thought terminating cliches like “people have rights and corporations are people so they have rights” and normal people don’t want to learn a mountain of history to unpack the lies and bullshit… And companies have the money to hire the best PR… so they have done a pretty good job convincing everyone on the sorts of subjects that are in the corporations best interests… sadly.
  - jacquesm 3y ago
    > the rubicon was corporate personhood. Agreed, big mistake there. And next to impossible to fix now.