That's some real commitment to transphobia! Though I am once again reminding you that you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them."

Love my trans comrades! :trans-heart:

      • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        ?

        Are people not allowed to enjoy art just because it's on a capitalist streaming site? Because in that cast all art is bad...

        • Thisisnotadrilbit [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Socialist aren’t supposed to like popular things produced by capital. You have to live your whole life being an edgy teenager. But I really don’t give a shit About what other people think about my preferences

        • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          I understand it's not for everyone but I loved it. Welcome to the Internet is such a mood and I now frequently have "My stupid friends are having stupid children" on repeat in my head.

        • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          why should someone with more than enough money have made more, merit =/= excessive compensation

          • Thisisnotadrilbit [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            Except he actually made Netflix way more than he was paid. Does he not deserve the to be paid fairly for his labor? Are you also one of these “Hasan lives in big house bad ppl? Athletes get paid too much.”

              • KermitTheFraud [they/them]
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                3 years ago

                This is a very important distinction to make. Bo performed a lot of labor to make this show. It was over a year of work. A $4 million salary is still an insane amount of money, but regardless the value he created for Netflix was significantly more than what he received.

                However, this is only looking at things monetarily. The reason Bo’s special is able to be worth so much is that Netflix hires hundreds of employees to organize and consolidate the attention of their customers, which is then lent to Bo with the understanding that Bo will participate in this attention cycle. So Bo actually gains a lot of social capital out of this exchange as well. Compared to every other worker in the chain, he gets pretty much all of it.

                But here’s the important part: that social capital is a loan. An investment. It will let him retain enough clout and prestige to do another Netflix special in a few years, but if he stops producing or begins to actively undermine the system, he will be cut off and forgotten. You could say that even compared to the executive who pay him he ends up with more social capital, but there is a difference between being the user of social capital and being the owner. Bo is the user. The worker. The faceless Netflix CEO is the owner. I don’t know anything about the Netflix CEO, but I’d imagine they keep their public life pretty low key. Despite this, they are in control of more social capital than Bo Burnham could ever utilize.

              • BreadpilledChadwife [they/them]
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                3 years ago

                Bo is above line and he knows it. Even if he owned all of that equipment prior (pretty sure he didn’t), that’s half a career’s worth of accumulation from someone who’s had millions of dollars put forward to promote him.

              • Thisisnotadrilbit [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                So the person who makes the paintbrush also deserves a cut of every painters work? I don’t remember reading that in Kapital

                  • Thisisnotadrilbit [none/use name]
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                    3 years ago

                    Yeah I agree with that. Just don’t think they would be making money specifically from Bo or the production of any of his specials.