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> You would have thought people in the business would know about this. People in the business world seems to only know business, and that's the limit of what t
by embedding-shape 11mo ago
> You would have thought people in the business would know about this.
People in the business world seems to only know business, and that's the limit of what they care about. Place these people into the arts, and you quickly see how important it is to have at least a single ounce of care when you work on projects where you want some level of quality.
But I think HBO, Netflix and most TV/streaming services are run by business-people still, as they think it's a numbers game, not a arts game. Eventually someone will understand and take the world by storm, but seemingly not yet.
- lotsofpulp 11mo ago>But I think HBO, Netflix and most TV/streaming services are run by business-people still, as they think it's a numbers game, not a arts game. Eventually someone will understand and take the world by storm, but seemingly not yet. Because they are businesses? Just because something is art doesn't mean expenses can be more than revenue. There was an enormous increase in the supply of entertainment over the last 20 years, in the form of Youtube, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, WhatsApp, HN, video games, etc. Demand stayed the same, maxed out at 24 hours per day. One should expect changes in quality and quantity and price in a market with drastically shifting supply and demand curves.
- code_for_monkey 11mo agoDont criticize the billion dollar corporation >:(
- lotsofpulp 11mo agoI am not criticizing anyone. Just explaining the dynamics that led to the dramatic reduction in value of the legacy businesses that produced professional video content, and the inevitable repercussions.
- ryandrake 11mo ago> People in the business world seems to only know business, and that's the limit of what they care about. You’d think these people would go off and be executives at a ball bearing manufacturing company or something and leave the arts alone, but it never happens that way.
- triceratops 11mo agoWhy do business without glamor when you can do business with glamor?
- bsenftner 11mo agoIt's all about prestige, which in my opinion is the #1 driver of human motivation.
- dghlsakjg 11mo agoThe wheels would fall off of modern society if ball bearings had quality issues like this. I know that you are joking, but well-made BBs are incredibly important to just about any modern machine that moves, and indirectly, all the non-moving ones too. Hell, Albert Speer, Nazi in charge of BBs and other manufacturing, said that the US bombing offensive would have had a huge impact on the war if they had just kept at it with bombing the BB factories instead of giving up.