Truly a wonderful system that does not waste or destroy already created labor value and knows just how best to allocate it
One of the most bazinga things I've ever heard from a family member is "private ownership is best for everything because people that own something care about it more!" :so-true:
Coincidentally, that was the same argument made by founding :libertarian-approaching: talking heads for why children should be legally buyable in markets.
“private ownership is best for everything because people that own something care about it more!”
your shit is stuff and everyone else's stuff is shit kinda breaks down when you have too much stuff to care about it all individually. that actually sounds like an argument for expropriation.
private ownership is best for everything because people that own something care about it more
How do they square that with the fact that private ownership results in the accumulation of industry in a handful of people, leaving the vast majority to be dispossessed and alienated workers
They don't. They talked about how the staff microwave in the place they worked was dirty and poorly maintained, versus the nice one they owned at home. :maybe-later-kiddo: :maybe-later-honey:
Fanfics are basically copyright infringement but most big media companies ignore it because it doesn't really affect profits enough for them to care (or has a positive effect). They're passion projects done for free 99% of the time, and occasionally people will "finish" dead fics if the OP disappears for a few years.
Oh I see, and yes, I do agree. People that like something will do incredible things with it as a labor of love, which also defies the capitalist dogma of money as the only incentive for effort.
And some corporations clamp down hard on fan anything. Paramount was especially douchey with Prelude to Axanar and Star Trek Phase 2, for example.
That's very silly given that Star Trek was one of the first big fanfic fandoms.
adult swim is a cultural institution, its the only innovative thing on television, capitalism is going to kill western animation, Disney is going to own everything, what a sad sad day, i really hope Rick and morty isn’t affected by this.
I didn't even know that Shenmue got an anime adaptation.
In bad country, art that does not please the ruling class is destroyed, no matter how popular it was.
So why are they doing this? Cartoons are one of the backbones of Warner Bros. legacy.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/laid-off-hbo-max-execs-reveal-warner-bros-discovery-is-killing-off-diversity-and-courting-middle-america
It's not about profits it's an ideological cultural purge.
I am surprised that nobody on Hexbear has called this book burning yet. I see it as book burning. They are purging media that they think is too "diverse" and too left leaning. It's a move that puts ideology before profits.
Cartoons are one of the backbones of Warner Bros. legacy.
Discovery doesn't care. They found out it's cheaper and more profitable to churn out endless "talking thumb men are assholes to each other" quasi-documentaries.
I keep getting told that I should pirate modern media, but it looks like the vast chunk of it just isn't even worth pirating.
Adult Swim: "We've been growing a popular base of 20-something fans for nearly 30 years. We spend next to nothing on our products and they routinely become cult classics among this lucrative target audience"
WB: "Oh yeah, let's cut all of that"
can someone reply with a list of everything that got canceled, i'm not clicking a cbr link
The following shows have been removed from Adult Swim's website:
- Blade Runner: Black Lotus
- Fena: Pirate Princess
- Lazor Wulf
- Shenmue: The Animation
- Tigtone
Lazor Wulf and Tigtone leave HBO Max tomorrow night, likely meaning Black Lotus will as well. The three anime are all still on Crunchyroll (as they were co-productions), and hopefully all five will stick around on digital stores.
If you start seeing these shows get removed from online stores like iTunes or Amazon in the next few weeks, assume they're getting written off. Otherwise, they're being stuffed in that increasingly expanding vault that already has Infinity Train and OK KO in it. (x)
I wish there way just a Toonami channel of anime and cartoons for folks. Like a "Deep Space Transmission" channel where TOM just blasts out great toons and does his little PSAs for being a good person and believing in yourself
