/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>12373893

Decentralized platforms like patreon but without the censorship would help alleviate that problem. People will still support artists and artists will still make art.

Moreover large productions like triple AAA games and movies would require large amounts of workers collaborating. The demand for them wouldn't go away which means someone(s) will pay for them to be made. And yes, royalties would go away, as would the capitalists that largely reap them. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it would just mean that artists would rely on wages/salaries/grants (which might bring more stability to their income anyway) instead of licensing fees.

Collectors and enthusiasts would still also value original work. There would likely still be some demand for things like Nintendo's amiibos.

Beyond that, a market that doesn't prioritize profit and instead prioritizes lowering prices would drive the cost of living down so much that artists could feasibly work for a year or two at a side gig then make art and live off of savings for years even if their art wasn't profitable.

Any market predominantly owned by the working class would favor the working class. Profit would be an element, but driving down prices through greater efficiency would benefit quality of life much more. This would probably happen through mutual aid pacts where one federation of cooperatives agrees to give lower prices to worker-members of another federation and vice versa instead of charging market rates. This of course would in turn draw down market rates. Mutual aid pacts already happen between cooperatives, but their aren't enough large federations to see if the idea will scale yet.

Federations would also provide social safety nets like healthcare, college tuition, pensions, social security and unemployment for their worker-members and their families. The multibilliondoller Mondragon Federation of Worker Cooperatives which employs over 70,000 people in Spain already does this.

>>12005385

> Being easily swayed by natural desire does not disqualify one from reading a textbook.

That's not at all inherent to women. Look at the thirsty anons on this very thread.

> The problem isn't that I don't have empathy, it is that I had too much at one point. The lack of emotional intelligence is what makes them simple-minded and rather incomplex beings in my mind. And what good would engaging with that be?

The fact that you're unable to see them as equally complex as yourself, almost like they're aliens shows you have little true understanding of them. They are quite literally the same as ourselves outside of cultural conditioning, and conditioning does not reduce the inherent complexity of the human condition. A different formula does not imply a less complex or refined formula.

For clarification sakes, please define "simple minded" in your eye. We're clearly operating under different definitions. I'm thinking of simple minded as intellectually incapable but our conversation has established that my understanding of your definition is wrong.

P2 Coming

tfw you're an honors student so you get away with paraphrasing entire articles from obscure blogs because automated plagerism checking algorithms are retarded and all your teachers don't suspect you enough to ever put the pieces together.

To be fair, I write my papers that matter, but when a prof gives me a stupid assignment you bet your ass I'm increasing efficiency if I can help it.