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Labels will not regret recordings being lost, because it's just asshole executives who only care about money. The hapless sound historian is just projecting hi
by kazinator 2y ago
Labels will not regret recordings being lost, because it's just asshole executives who only care about money.
The hapless sound historian is just projecting his own bellyaches onto other people that are completely different from him.
- pessimizer 2y agoMiddle-class people are taught (,and teach each other, and repeat to themselves in their journals) that the only successful labor is labor that is loved. For them, the heads of record labels have to care, because they are the most successful people in their industry, and they wouldn't be so successful unless they loved the work. In middle-class theology, becoming successful is a matter of loving harder than the guy next to you. It takes a lot of mind games to motivate people to extreme expertise in often very narrow specializations, especially when it's usually to make someone else rich.
- sitkack 2y agoThe CEO of HBO Max, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zaslav https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zaslav destroys works of art to get tax handouts from the american people. Yes, American Tax Payers, pay David Zaslav money to destroy works of art already created.
- kazinator 2y agoInteresting. I made a remark in my above comment which I ending up editing out, that if someone gave these execs a wad of cash for deleting something, they would.
- badlibrarian 2y agoOr, more nuanced: HBO pays artists and writers and electricians $50 million to make something. It turns out to be unmarketable. So rather than throw good money after bad, he writes it off. Then uses the tax savings to hire artists and writers and electricians to make a different thing. It's wasteful and I don't like his decisions but it's not much different from what VCs do with their expenditures. In neither case do American Tax Payers foot the bill. Zaslav could write it off and still dump it on YouTube. And VCs could open source all the Ruby code they bought between 2006 and 2016. But there's reasons they don't.
- sitkack 2y agoFalse. They had animated shows already being streamed on HBO Max that they pulled and fully wrote off. They can never be accessed again. Should be considered fully destroyed.
- badlibrarian 2y agoThat's different. Impairment is the same as Goodwill. Taxpayers are unaffected. And I think we both know quite well that the stuff that was aired still exists.
- sitkack 2y agoI can see you are passionate about this. Tax writeoffs are paid for by the taxpayers.
- badlibrarian 2y agoTax writeoffs by definition are taxpayers paying less. It reduces tax revenue and reduces the average tax paid by everyone. When your neighbor writes off their mortgage interest it does not raise your taxes. If you don't like certain policies around tax deductions then argue that. I might even agree with you.
- sitkack 2y agoWhy are you passionate about HBO Max using the destruction of artwork already produced to lower their tax bill? Many of which they bought.
- badlibrarian 2y agoSix <ul> tags upstream I all but said that HBO Max guy is an idiot. I'm personally pissed at the ACME thing. But it didn't increase your tax burden.
- bigtimesink 2y agoAre you talking about Coyote Vs. Acme?
- m463 2y agoHe needs to be introduced to NFT art.