Thread 211869133

Should all movies be free?

Hold on
Hold on let me find it.
YES!
Here it is, gotcha chuddie.

>>211869133 (OP)
at that point everything should be free. And at that point, Mark Ruffalo's anus should be free for me to hulk out on.

>>211869168
he's got a point

>>211869133 (OP)

they are unless you're a retard

>>211869168
>used by millions of midwits to wash away any criticism of their dissonant behavior
comicfags deserve the rope.

>>211869168
All of those are regular people
The equivalent would be an ultra-rich millionaire complaining that others are making money
Your little strawman comic is invalid here

>>211869133 (OP)
No, but copyright should expire after 5 years. At that point, a movie has either turned a profit and been approved for a sequel or it hasn't. Providing copyright protection beyond that point does nothing to incentivize the creation of new content (the stated public policy goal for copyright existing), so it's just about giving the studios control.

>>211869133 (OP)
I don't understand. I haven't paid for a movie since like 2003.

>>211869577
I think corporations should be banned from creating or owning patents or copyrights, and copyrights should only exist as long as the original individual who filed for it is alive, and when they die (or when they choose to relinquish) it becomes public domain.

>>211869577
breaking copyright law will only flood the markets with thousands of pajeet AI copycat movies after 5 years, nobody wants that either.
we don't need more slop content

Peter Schiff is extremely based and his advice is making me rich
I'm all in on mining stocks.
Also his economic takes are very good.

>>211869168
>communism
>improving society
Communism has brought the working class mass suffering and death every time it was tried.
There's a reason why the countries with the highest living standards for the working class have the freest markets.

>>211869133 (OP)
>entertainment is a human right
possibly one of the most retarded things I've ever read

Mark ruffalo is such a pseudo intellectual retard.
Why doesn't he move to Venezuela if he hates economic from so much.

>>211869133 (OP)
see how easily the "Human Rights" concept can morph into a laundry list of desires - entitlements that someone else (usually government) must provide for you.

>>211869168
The iPhone one is valid, if you really cared you would buy literally any other phone on the market. You're just virtue signalling at that point.
This comic was originally created to deflect the "if you're a communist why do you have a $3k macbook".
And you can tell that shit was right on the money this nigga has a macbook for sure.

Jesus Christ this guy is so insufferable.
It's incredible cancerous tumors like this guy exist.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/mark-ruffalo-slams-billionaires-donald-trump-grifter-1236435124/

He also said white people cause most of the crimes in America. He doesn't know what per capita means.

Reminder that leftists are in a religious cult.
They legitimately have zero critical thinking skills.

>>211869168
You can survive without an iPhone

>>211869905
they absolutely know what per capita means. ignoring reality when it makes your argument look stupid and bad is a foundational pillar of leftism. practically all of their social policy is based on it.

>>211869133 (OP)
Mark ruffalos "solution" is to give the government more power and to print even MORE money.
Why do these people exist

>>211869756
it's not actually free markets that bring high living standards, thoughbeit, it's a lack of subversive actors and ethnic diversity.

>>211869168
There are many retarded things about this comic, but the one that stands out most to me is that medieval peasants loved the status quo more than anyone.
Peasants revolts were almost always in response to some kind of policy change, like a new tax or religion. Any "progressive" revolts usually came from townsmen or burgers, or even the aristocracy itself.

>>211869972
Protip: it's Both Of those things

>>211869972
Singapore is pretty diverse yet they're extremely well off because they embraced economic freedom.

>>211869781
>can't use context clues to figure out what the author's intent is
>calls others retarded
lol

>>211869756
Communism has never really been tried.

>>211870035
LOL

>>211869133 (OP)
Movies are free?

>>211870015
>Singapore is pretty diverse yet they're extremely well off because they embraced economic freedom.
>he thinks it's the economic freedom that's keeping Singapore nice and not the rare benevolent leadership and corporal punishment utilized at the first sign of deliberate shitstirring

>>211869133 (OP)
ruffalo stands for nothing

>>211870015
>Singapore is pretty diverse
it's like 92% asian, most of that being ethnically chinese. that's like saying pre-1970s US was diverse because it had lots of different types of white people.

>>211869977
What stands out to me is that all of that is completely irrelevant and you might be autistic

>>211869168
>i want to live as a communist
>ok move to a communist country or form a commune with like-minded-
>NO EVERYONE MUST BE COMMUNIST GIVE ME YOUR STUFF
grow up

>>211870084
Who are you quoting Chaim?

When it was completely normal to have broadcast TV showing films, there were plenty of opportunities to see them for free. This was a good thing and we're missing out right now.

>>211870015
they should import shitloads of unskilled Africans and Arabs and see how that works out for their tiny Han city-state.

>>211870065
>rare benevolent leadership
Yeah the ones who implemented an extremely free market economy.
My point exactly.
>>211870072
Nope

Why would anyone be forced to give you something for free? Just don't pay to see the movie.

>>211870127
Marxism lost /pol/cuck
Go back to your commie board

>>211870130
you can watch pretty much any movie ever made for free online

>>211869168
These points are all valid inasmuch as the whiners are part of the problem and could easily be part of the solution. In Ruffalo's case, he's in all likelihood a multimillionaire profiting from capitalism and he's offering to set an example.

>>211870130
I miss when they used to show fun family movies on network TV on the weekends. It seems like they haven't done it in years, and now it's nothing but those awful crime docu-dramas for femcel shut-ins.

>>211870136
nta but 91% East Asian isn't exactly the burn you think it was

imagine still simping for capitalism when you're fucking poor. lmao.

>>211870136
>literally posts chart proving that it's 93% asian and 7% indian (who are also technically asian)
retard

>>211869725
LOL. My apartment window from when I was in college is in that photo. Didn't expect to be put on memory lane today.

>>211869168
The top one is correct though. Unless you have some weird specific job requiring a phone app, all you really need is a cheap flip phone to send / receive calls and texts to communicate with people. If you are so concerned about Apple's practices why support them?

Bottom left makes no sense and bottom right is a ridiculous strawman nobody has ever used in reality.

>>211870180
>haha imagine supporting the policies that help the poor the most when you're POOR!!

RETARD ALERT!

>>211870136
>91% asian
>7% jeet
>2% "other" asian
Wow so diverse.

>>211870186
>>211870177
Aren't malays southeast Asian and not east Asian?
Anyway my point is they have different cultures that seem to get along.
The main reason they are rich are economically liberal policies enforced by a benevolent dictatorship.

>>211870193
What you studied at mises Institute?

>>211870186
To be fair that's almost certainly a representation of the ethnic breakdown of their full time citizen residents. Their true population breakdown will trend far more toward indians and arabs most of the year because of the migrant labor they utilize extensively. The only difference is they actually enforce their worker visa shit so their country doesn't become a black hole for anyone who wants to mooch like most of the west has become.

>>211870227
>Aren't malays southeast Asian and not east Asian?
south east is still east. Also Singapore has a strict immigration policy (they filter for only the most skilled, economically beneficial immigrants, and they refuse to even take refugees) and they have a strict legal system, with harsh punishments for things which would seem minor to many Westerners. Up until only a few decades ago they were essentially a Fascist state. To this day their government is mindful of demographic balance within the country, and aims to maintain an East Asian majority indefinitely.

In other words, their approach to government and economics is very different our Western one.

>>211869133 (OP)
The hilarious part about Ruffalo's message is that, as a super rich dude, he could literally "lift" so many people out of poverty just with his own personal wealth.

Quick Google search said he makes between $10-15 mill a year, let's be fair and just say he makes $8 mill a year. Okay.

Let's say he still wants to live very luxuriously, not very communist of him, but we are just being fair here. So let's say he keeps $1 mill a year for himself. Okay.

That $7 mill a year could be used to buy 17 families a $400,000 home, which is more than enough for at least a decent family home in basically any area of the country. He could also top up the income of 140 different families by $50,000 which would clearly bring them up to or close to the average family income.

This is lowballing his income and doesn't count all his assets / savings, and ignores all the other actors he could talk into doing the same thing with their own fortunes. To say nothing of other connections to the rich he has.

And yet almost none of these things ever happen and all these rich commies ever do is virtue signal.

>>211869133 (OP)
done that libtard freak

>>211869133 (OP)
God damn these fucking commies!

>>211869168
ahem

>>211870338
A drop in a bucket when there are hundreds of millions in America and over half the country has less than couple hundred bucks in savings.

>>211869133 (OP)
Postal work is at least a respectable job, Much unlike acting.

>>211870338
I don’t even disagree with you that he’s being hypocritical, but if you don’t attack the fundamental problem then all you’ve done is offer respite for a handful of families that won’t even last a generation.
However, you just know this guy would be everything he could to limit his taxes if taxes were raised on him and his ilk.
>ohh well actually I meant tax the corporations and the rich, but rich being like $1B+, oopsie

>>211870326
>south east is still east
Lol that's not what people are referring to when they say things like this you liar
You think Filipinos are east Asians?
>Fascist state
Shit eating /pol/tards have literally no clue what fascism is.
Singapore took extremely anti fascist(SOCIALIST) measures and these policies are what grew their economy.
There are plenty of actual socialist/interventionist/fascist nations in asia with strict immigration policies and guess what, they're all poor as fuck.

>>211870227
>>211870326
for contrast, here's some examples of how Western countries do things.
Top = the fiscal impact of non-Western immigrants on the Danish economy.
Bottom = Violent crime stats of African immigrants in Victoria, Australia

Singapore's approach can be summed up as follows
>keep a mostly homogeneous demographic super-majority
>accept only the immigrants who are likely to be a economic benefit and are law-abiding
>don't accept any refugees or illegal immigrants
>be strict to ensure low crime
>guest workers are temporary and must return to their home countries
All of this would be described as "racist" and "Fascist" by Western Liberals and Leftists

>>211870412
Now you understand why eating the rich would do literally fucking nothing to help the poor and working class

>>211870412
>rich people should give away all their money to the poor!
>but ruffalo you're a millionaire, why aren't you giving your money?
>uuuuuh because it won't be enough to save every single poor person in the US! that's why! so I'm not giving away any of my money at all. but it's not because I'm a piece of shit.
if you really believe in sharing all wealth, you should share all your wealth, even if you have very little.
otherwise you're just one of those people who go "we should let all immigrants in and give them free homes! no I'm not gonna put an immigrant in my house, are you crazy?"

>>211870326
Wow just like Ireland!

>>211869133 (OP)

Movies are already free though. For the most part paying is a choice made to support the artists and studios and recognize their work. Making movies takes a lot of knowledge, time and skill, making any kind of art does, except modern art, and that has value.

Why would it be any less valuable than managing a store, driving a bus, imputing data on an excel spreadsheet, delivering or making calls to offer insurance or any 9 to 5 when it requires far more knowledge and skill and has far less forgiving hours?

Some would say because entertainment is not a "need", it´s not like food or clothing or having a surgery and that´s true but tell me, what do you do after you finally make it home after work. Don´t you watch a movie, tv show or play a video game to unwind and not feel you live to work and make others rich? If so, i would argue that there is indeed a need for entertainment.

That said i´d like independent and foreign film makers to have more exposition. There are plenty of artists out there making meaningful movies but these don´t make it to the main distribution channels making it difficult for audiences to even know they exist, let alone support them.

>>211870506
>Lol that's not what people are referring to when they say things like this you liar
That is exactly what I was referring to when I used the term here >>211870177
Malaysia is right next-door to Singapore. They're both south-east Asian countries. The Sino-Singaporeans are Singaporeans of Han Chinese ancestry. They are also South-East Asian, though their ancestors are from further north.

Estonians and Bulgarians are both Eastern Europeans, though one is from the north-east and the other the south-east. Neither are Western European.

>>211870593
Singapore is nothing like Ireland. Ireland takes lots of refugees and low-skilled immigrants who are an economic loss and have higher crime rates than the natives.

>>211870537
>no goyim don't eat the exploiters that's antisemitic plus it won't stop you from being exploited anyway so don't bother.

>>211870506
>Singapore took extremely anti fascist(SOCIALIST) measures and these policies are what grew their economy.
Complete nonsense. Singapore during the Cold War was one of the most stridently anti-Communist countries in the world, violently persecuting Communists and Socialists within its borders. As for Socialism, Singapore ranks only behind Hong Kong in terms of economic freedom. Public expenditure is small (14% of GDP in Singapore compared to 36% in the USA)

>>211870506
people use the term "east asian" to distinguish "orientals" from semitics and indians. south EAST asians are still east asians. it's literally in the name.

>>211870936
>exploiters
Wage labor isn't exploitation, vaush.
Go back to your loli folder
>so don't bother.
You're the same bootlickers who advocate the government exploiting us more lol

>>211870506
Singapore is an objectively fascist nation. It literally meets every single metric for being fascist except for "Nazi vibes" or just calling themselves fascist.
If "fascist" was a more neutral term instead of an insult, they would be calling themselves that as an accurate descriptor.
You're a fucking retard.

>>211870962
>Singapore during the Cold War was one of the most stridently anti-Communist countries in the world, violently persecuting Communists and Socialists within its borders.
Yes I know, that's what I said.
You okay?
Maybe this was my fault. I said this wrong
I said they were anti socialist by means of being anti fascist(I am implying that fascism is socialism)

>>211871074
>Singapore is an objectively fascist nation
How? Their economic policies are extremely liberal. They're one of the freest markets in the world.
Fascism means state control of economy.

>You're a fucking retard.
Your definition of fascism isn't the historic one, it's the reddit antifa communist faggot one lmao

>>211869725
Is that an old folks home?

>>211869133 (OP)
My library has a pretty big DVD selection not including ILL.

>>211871053
>Wage labor isn't exploitation
it is when you capture the government then begin to stagnate wages for decades while productivity and profit continue to climb.
>people who want to tear down the corrupt are the same as the people who want even more corruption
you're a literal retard.

>>211871118
Projecting. You're just making up retarded definitions to suit your needs, and then accusing me of doing that.
>Fascism means state control of economy.
Like, look at that. Pfft. Like I'm supposed to take a dipshit like you seriously. I don't even know how to argue with you, since your whole point of view is based on a retarded fanfiction version of politics.

>>211870127
i'm paraphrasing the author of the cartoon
their "hilarious" take is that it's unrealistic for anti-capitalists to lead by example, because they live in a capitalist society
a capitalist society that (unlike a communist society) will let them leave, or live as they want
so why don't they?
because they need a "revolution" (to confiscate everyone else's things) or it won't work

The whole societal/govermentual/economic system needs a top/bottom and back-again overhaul and only the niggerst of niggers and literal israelities disagree with this simple statement

Society will be no more in less than half a century worldwide if we keep acelerating forward in the direction we arw going

>>211871189
>every capitalist is magically in bed with government
LOL no
>productivity hasnt kept pace with wages
Lol also wrong
The problem is that productivity has stagnated and that GDP is a lie
>>people who want to tear down the corrupt
Your "solution"is literally to give the government and central banks more power kek

>You're just making up retarded definitions to suit your needs,
My definition comes from the historic fascists and historic fascist countries.
Fascism was an offshoot of syndicalism which is a form of socialism.
Your definition of fascism is the leftist one meaning "le bad dictator"
Literal manchild tier
>Like I'm supposed to take a dipshit like you seriously. I don't even know how to argue with you, since your whole point of view is based on a retarded fanfiction version of politics
This entire statement is pure projection. You literally looked into a mirror while typing this.
The Italian fascist economy was almost as state controlled as the ussr was.

>>211871222
>You're just making up retarded definitions to suit your needs,
My definition comes from the historic fascists and historic fascist countries.
Fascism was an offshoot of syndicalism which is a form of socialism.
Your definition of fascism is the leftist one meaning "le bad dictator"
Literal manchild tier
>Like I'm supposed to take a dipshit like you seriously. I don't even know how to argue with you, since your whole point of view is based on a retarded fanfiction version of politics
This entire statement is pure projection. You literally looked into a mirror while typing this.
The Italian fascist economy was almost as state controlled as the ussr was.

>>211869133 (OP)
What the fuck is television and youtube?

>>211871118
(1st anon you replied to)
ok my bad, I didn't read your post closely enough.

>>211871483
All good bro

>>211869133 (OP)
Millionaires complain about billionaires so they get heat off lower and middle class off their back.

It's a trick of deception and misdirection. Millionaires cause way more problems in society than billionaires.

>>211871546
>Millionaires cause way more problems in society than billionaires

nah,.not even close

>>211871651
>t. millionaire

>>211871651
There are 813 billionaires in America.
There are 22 million millionaires in America.

No - 813 people didn't change your life for the worse. The 22 million fucked you over trying to make theirs better at your expense.

>>211869905
The biggest crime in America is wage theft and I don't think the darkies own and operate too many businesses.

>>211869133 (OP)
Reichsfilmkammer maxxing

>>211871744
Billionaires are largely the ones lobbying and having laws rewritten to favor them at the cost of everyone else. Currently we're on track to have 10+ million Americans lose the low quality, last resort healthcare known as Medicaid so they can get tax cuts. The billionaire owners of various companies have also successfully lobbied for deregulation of safety protocols so our food and other necessities will poison us.
Millionaires don't have "I write the laws and determine who gets elected" money.

>>211869133 (OP)
Yes but not via a centralized government, and this has the same problem of most things being free that it won't work until having your basic needs met is effectively a universal right so production and distribution doesn't have to have labor costs the same way they do now. If people still have to pay for food, shelter, care, and access to the tools and resources they need to do the work they wanna do, then the products of that work can't really be free either.

>>211871888
More millionaires lobby the government than billionaires at a ridiculous rate. Billionaires have offshore accounts while millionaires use their money for influence to get even richer.

The sheer number of millionaires fuck your life over way more than billionaires.

>>211870015
Singapore is a shithole. Praising Singapore is like boasting you have passive income from whoring your mother.

>>211871888
>Millionaires don't have "I write the laws and determine who gets elected" money.
Are you retarded? The majority of big money donations come from millionaires, not billionaires. Usually it's just like 5-6 billionaires giving to politicians, while it's tens of thousands+ of millionaires donating to political pushes.

>>211871888
The answer is right in front of your face.
Government is literally the problem.

>>211871989
>Singapore is a shithole
Okay retard

>>211870778
Yeah but we were both colonized and we were both success stories after we stopped being colonized.

>>211869133 (OP)
They are already free

>ahoy!

>>211870130
>boomer doesn’t know how smart /tv/s work.
There are tons of free networks that show old movies and run ads just like the old days. No coat hangers or aluminum foil required

>>211872041
Why are you not living there dumbass?
>nooo muh economic freedom too spicy

>>211872103
I'm sure their people both wear socks too, but I'm not seeing the significance. Plenty of countries stopped being successful after colonization (mainly due to being African/retarded)

>>211869725
so uh, what happens at this institute. Can I retire there?

>>211872254
sucking & fucking

>>211870136
do they have any Singaporeans?

>>211869133 (OP)
they are

>>211872230
I don't speak the language, I can't get citizenship, I prefer my own culture, our living standards are comparable.
Why bother?

>>211869133 (OP)
absolutely, actors are all whores and should be reviled as such.

>>211869133 (OP)
After like, 10, or 5 years, yes

>>211869168
He's right in every instance though.
Reducing the argument and making it look silly doesn't make it any less right.

>>211869133 (OP)
>equal pay for actors and postal workers
This is just the tech bro version of communism where everyone is struggling and poor except for tech bros who are rich oligarchs.
If the tech bros actually believed in the capitalism they claimed to believe in, they'd accept that actors/filmmakers that get rich do so because they are paid what the market deems appropriate.
>tldr; he's just salty that the free market is prepared to pay people millions to play pretend without having to learn to code like he did

>>211872291
Singapore was a chunk of the Malay Kingdom which the British leased/bought to build a trading post. The Malays are probably the closest things to native Singaporians

>>211869168
>luxury goods are ackshually the same as basic needs
You can always trust a leftist cuckold to be completely retarded.

>>211871836
n-no, that doesn't count because reasons
we need to focus on non-mass shootings where the victim is also a criminal

>>211872384
I always thought that argument is silly cuz it's natural end point is to assume the only people who can have valid critiques of something are people with no firsthand experience with/within that thing, which then doesn't seem like terribly informed critique. Then you realise this argument only really silences critique in defense of a status quo.

>>211869133 (OP)
After 10 years yes. I should be able to watch adult swim shows from the early 2000s and John woo 80s films for free. Especially on that second half, his films are just unavailable in the west without pirating and his films are old ass hell while whatever company who has rights to them, refuse to release them. So yes, make it free.

>>211870506
lol stfu faggot if singapore was a white country you would call it the next coming of hitler

What's actually needed is a genuinely equal playing field.
Essentially youtube but where everyone could profit off of ad revenue without having to jump through their hoops, and where all media existed together. And where you could directly pay to buy the media from its owner. This would only help the people who aren't already insiders though so there's zero incentive for it to ever come to fruition.

>>211869133 (OP)
That's a big question! There are a lot of angles to consider when talking about whether all movies should be free.

On one hand, there’s the idea that art, including movies, should be accessible to everyone. If movies were free, it could give people from all walks of life access to culture, ideas, and stories that they might not otherwise have. In theory, it could make the world more equal in terms of cultural access, helping people learn, grow, and connect.

But on the other hand, movies are a huge investment. Filmmakers, actors, crew, and studios all put a lot of time, energy, and resources into making a film, and they depend on revenue to keep making more movies. If everything was free, it could hurt the incentive to create high-quality content, or even make it harder for independent filmmakers to break through.

What do you think? Should we aim for a more accessible model, or is the current system necessary to maintain quality?

>>211872507
I think that's fair. The issue is ip rights. If you invent a new character, Awesome Pants, who the public loves and who makes you millions, should anyone be allowed to make content with that character after 10 years?
What if your character doesn't make you much money at all but 10 years later ea uses your character in a shitty pay-to-win game that earns them millions? Is that fair?

>>211872596
thanks GPT!

>>211870544
I believe Ruffalo should pay more taxes. Just like every other rich person. But I am not a fucking moron like you who thinks one person giving away his money would do or change anything in the large picture when what is actually needed is systemic change. Ruffalo as a wealthy person has a platform and it’s more beneficial to have someone like him hammering against the system instead of him being poor and making it so that all you hear is the other rich people telling people with less money to just pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

>>211872621
Yeah, because at the end of the day, most of these creators let a company own their character, so even with that the issue has always just been money, but if we remove money as an issue, I think you should just give a credit like
>original creator of said character
And call it a day. With John woo again, I'm pretty sure it's whoever who owns the rights to his films whom dosent let it get a rerelease. It's just collecting dust. But if you made a character, 10 years passes, and I take that character and market it better thus garnering a larger profit, then you don't deserve anything beyond a shout out because I did all the work in the present.

>>211870127
kys commie nigger

>>211870240
No, I studied at Auburn University, which is where Mises is located. They moved there because of Auburn's Ph.D. program in economics was very much in alignment with the views of the foundation. Too bad that program was shut down around the time the institute moved into that building.

>>211872749
>But if you made a character, 10 years passes, and I take that character and market it better thus garnering a larger profit, then you don't deserve anything beyond a shout out because I did all the work in the present.
Sure.
But let's alter the example slightly. You make a character, Joe Cool, and make a film/book/game about him. It does alright. You earn around $20k in profits.
You make a sequel. You earn a little more, $30k this time. You make a 3rd sequel and earn $50k this time. You're building up a solid fanbase of people that want to see more content with Joe Cool and you're slowly providing.
Then 10 years has passed and suddenly Apple releases something featuring Joe Cool but they have a much bigger budget than you. And they can spend $1m just on marketing their story as the real continuation of Joe Cool. And they earn $50m from people who think they're supporting you. And no one buys your Joe Cool content anymore because you can't match the marketing budget and your product now looks like the rip off. Is that fair?
Bear in mind that the 7th Harry Potter book came out 10 years after The Philosopher's Stone. So any soulless company could have effectively done this with Harry Potter and stolen the franchise from Rowling. Is that fair? That situation is the monopoly effect

>>211872477
The core of capitalism is that 'demand' drives the market (bad actor shenanigans notwithstanding).
That comic is a bad argument because it's an argument in favor of capitalism not whatever alternative it is supposed to push
>If people weren't okay with Apple's factory practices there wouldn't be a demand for its products and Apple would either bring the price of products down, change those disliked factory practices or go bankrupt.
And unlike some other active actions, NOT buying something doesn't require any effort so there's no excuse for getting involved with the product or company if you disagree with it.
>If people think a product lacks the security measures that they consider are necessary for their own safety and they don't buy the product, the company will either add the safety measures or another company will gasp that opportunity and do it themselves.
And unlike some other active actions, NOT buying something doesn't require any extra effort, yadda yadda.
>If people weren't okay with how society is, they would strike.
The last one seems the most 'sensical' but the reality is that is the most retarded because I bet the one who made the comic is perfectly okay with doing strikes as a form of pressure.
Nowadays anyone who wants to "improve society" is perceived as the gotcha chud racist in the well anyways so whatever old this comic is it has aged like shit.

Schiff is a goldbug but he is right as well. A fucking actor who makes tens of millions of dollars a year maybe thanks to capitalism should shut the fuck up about it. If he finds it so unfair he should donate all his networth and go live in a fucking 1 room flat like most people nowadays. Fucking hypocrites.

>>211869279
>wash away
highly doubt "no u" constitutes as criticism

>>211872935
Yeah because at the end of the day, once it's released to the public. It belongs to the world. It should be an honor to have that many people wanting to use your character and make it a household name. If you could make that character that valuable who's to say your dedicated fan base won't also stay loyal to that. Many marvel fans are huge james Gunn, so if he made a totally unrelated from marvel or DC superhero movie people would watch off his name alone. Plus, you can always make a new character. It's gonna happen eventually, prolonging it is just selfish.

>>211871442
>fat, smug Leftist posts schizo-drivel about events that only happened in his head while nobody listens

>>211871328
>making up shit in xir's head that nobody said
>not even responding to the right person
seething, pants-shitting loonie troonie retard.

>>211873381
the funny thing about leftxirs is that they do this regardless of whether they're "winning" or losing, whether they're in power or not. they exist entirely in their own heads detached from reality either way.

>>211869133 (OP)
>let's create a government-funded jewish propaganda arm where we can make antiwhite slop and not be penalized financially for failure
no

libertarianism is a mental Rubik's cube that jews have given to goyim to distract them from fighting jewish power

>>211869133 (OP)
That's propaganda. Actirs get paid too much VS below the line

>>211869133 (OP)
Normal film crew dudes would probably get paid more in a system like that.

GENUINE SOLUTION TO THE 'CONTENT CREATION' PAYMENT PROBLEM BY BASED rms:
https://stallman.org/articles/internet-sharing-license.old.en.html

> I propose therefore to distribute the funds solely to the creative participants, and ensure in the law that publishers cannot claim it back from them or deduct it from money otherwise owed them.
> The levy would be collected initially by the user's Internet Service Provider. How should it travel to the artist? It might pass through the hands of a state agency; it might pass through a collecting society
> The most obvious method is to compute each artist's share in direct proportion to her work's popularity.
> I propose [...] to pay each artist according to the cube root of his or her popularity. More precisely, the system could ascertain the popularity of each work, divide that among the work's artists to get a figure for each artist, then compute the cube root of that, and set the artists' shares in proportion to these cube roots.

FUCK COPYRIGHT

>>211874222
from each according to his ability, to each according to his need, eh?

>>211870177
>>211870683
>>211870326
>>211870506
>>211871118
I am Malaysian and I have been to Singapore and spoken to actual Singaporeans. I can post my passport with timestamp for any doubters.
From my own experience, Malays and Indians are not seen as "East Asian" by any stretch of the definition.
Singapore practices state capitalism and is effectively a benevolent dictatorship. It is "socialist" in the sense that it is a merger between the state and corporate power.
Also, it isn't really "diverse" since people are assimilated and English is the national language and is the de facto language to use.
>>211872517
This Anon has the right idea.

>>211869133 (OP)
>unironically arguing for a propaganda ministry
Imagine being that retarded, and yes, Hollywood should still burn. Things were much better when the nanny tranny state didn't shove billions in tax writeoffs into whateve slop the big studios are making.

capitalism has bridged the gap between wealthy and poor better than any system in recorded human history

>>211872312
If you speak English, you speak the language.
>>211870015
It's diverse in name only (read: ethnicity). People have assimilated. I am aware that people cannot fully be integrated into a certain culture, but the population is in a "tolerable" state.
You speak English to anyone and they'd 99.99% of the time speak English as well.
Schools, government and businesses speak English. Even the Chinese can speak English, although certain people might speak Mandarin to each other when in their own social circles.
There is a shared cultural and moral cohesion. Maybe not with the Muslims (Malays), but it is manageable for everyone else.
>>211870065
This is correct.
>>211872291
"Real" Singaporeans are the Malays who are native to the area. Think of Mexicans, and then imagine them being Islamists.

>>211869133 (OP)
Hang all commies

>>211869133 (OP)
Entertainment should absolutely have become non-profit by now, since it is irresponsible to waste resources as people are dying from a lack of them. But since they are not going to do it voluntarily, all of the profits from entertainment should be taxed, even retroactively. Regressives would love it though if they could extort money from Americans to pay for their crappy "entertainment" as they already do with PBS.

>>211869168
Unironically you could buy a fairphone though for double the price

>>211869133 (OP)
And that is why I pirate

>>211869133 (OP)
My problem with capitalism is that there are not enough capitalists.

>>211874840
Double the price of a Xiaomi/Huawei maybe.
Half the price of an Iphone with its accessories, and Apple cultists buy a new one every other year.

>>211872517
Pic related

>>211874350
I don't give shit how the Sino-Singaporeans see you. You're both south-east Asian.

>>211874417
it's not surprising that mark "ultra good goy" ruffalo would be promoting a ministry of propaganda. ol' pete on the other hand is making fun of it.

Fuck Commies.

>>211875460
You replied to the wrong post.

>>211869133 (OP)
What he really means is that the government should fund this awful Jewish propaganda that nobody wants to pay for so you're forced to fund it via your taxes.

>>211869133 (OP)
Peter Schiff is being ironic, you realized that, right?

When we roast this roach we'll be eating the rich and the bugs all in one, very green

>>211869168
Oh yeah, well I just OWNED you with metaphysical facts and logic B)

>>211869168
I mean, a millionaire calling for communism is peak delusion...

>>211871888
The only people "losing" Medicare are able bodied young people who refuse to work and illegal aliens, stop falling for msnbc propaganda

>>211869133 (OP)
>millionaires pretending to be friends of the working class

>>211869133 (OP)
>...said Mark Ruffalo, after signing his 5th Marvelslop movie for $10 million and dropping his daughter off at her $100k a year private school.

>>211870035
Neither has capitalism in that vein. I have never been able to purchase another human being. So true capitalism has never been tried, because even during slavery there was no true capitalistic government running things.

>>211870079
He is right though, youre just a midwit.

>>211870412
True change begins with yourself. And if youre not willing to sacrifice your own lifestyle for your beliefs maybe you shouldnt espew them?

>>211870506
Youre completely ignoring that they have very similiar cultures.

>>211869168
It's not the 80s anymore, someone making shit in a factory in China especially a big city can have a decent life. The Chinese became a super power this way, if anything they should be kissing our asses for it.

>>211878308
and who gets to judge who's "able bodied" or young" or "refusing" to work for that matter? how do they quantify any of it?

>>211878944
humans instead of the same cattle working government jobs keeping their lazy, able bodied, young and healthy counterparts on eternal government handouts

>>211869133 (OP)
What's the point? there's people around who turn entertainment into boring propaganda.

>>211870338
It takes a very simple mind to even suggest this kind of shit, especially after it's been tried a million times. Get given house, get fat, ruin the house in 5 years, can't afford to pay someone to fix it. Your great act of altruism made the people worse off and less independent than before.

>>211869756
Literally nothing in that comic even hints at communism.
America really did lose the cold war, they won't stop seething about muh communism.

>>211869133 (OP)
This Peter Shiff fella seems like he purposefully misunderstands the arguments of people he disagrees with.

>>211869168
>having a conviction that you're not willing to be inconvenienced for by the tiniest amount
peak rich white liberal faggotry. I bet you cry about global warming too while having your AC on full blast.
>b-b-but I made a cartoon so that makes it okay!

>>211871836
>biggest crime in America is wage theft
Absolutely this, leftists are stealing half of my paycheck via taxes every month to spend on nuggers, murderers, and illegals.

>>211869905
you don't know what 'most' means
>>211869924
Reminder that poltards are in a religious culture. They legitimately have zero critical thinking skills.

>>211879669
A fitting rebuttal to someone who doesn't understand what they're asking for.

>>211871888
>Currently we're on track to have 10+ million Americans lose the low quality, last resort healthcare known as Medicaid so they can get tax cuts.

Thank god, eat shit faggots.

>>211869781
I don't think it's a human right. That's just silly.
But society was indeed better when actors were treated as fools and dancing monkeys.

>>211879758
Wrong as usual Ivan.

>>211880143
Your entire ideology was exported by Ivans. Go set some Tesla on fire.

>>211869133 (OP)
but..they are?

do you think this thread is some sort of own or grand statement

>>211869133 (OP)
>Should all movies be free?
Aren't they already?

>>211869168
>challenge: have liberals hold themselves to the same standards they tell others to have
>impossible

So many alternative phones options and yet they see having apple products as a human right

>>211870167
That's how I saw the incredible based Gulliver's travels made for tv movie with my family. Good memory.

Reading a bearenstien bear book to my kids and brother bear was all "Oh, look at this TV special on later this week". It was crazy having to explain that to my kids and how is no longer a thing.