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Because desperate voice actors famously have so much leverage in contract negotiations, right? Why do you think Hollywood actors and writers unions went on strike in 2023?

You can’t shop your way out of enshittification.

You literally just explained how it is a function of supply (through an artificial shortage), not income. It’s lack of competition between landlords (whether through corporate landlords buying up millions of units or lots of little landlords using RealPage to engage in collusion via algorithm), and not discretionary.

On average, people don’t pay more than a third of their income for groceries because there’s still competition in the grocery space (which is also why it was so important that Lina Khan blocked the Kroger-Albertson’s merger).

We can hate landlords and capitalism without saying nonsense about UBI.

It’s a non-reformist reform that gives people the time and freedom to organize for more radical change

Do you think the CCC & WPA were makework?

My brother in christ, do you think landlords make rent proportional to people’s income right now?

Mandatory licensing of video content to anyone who can pay for it (similar to what the music industry does) is the only thing that the might disrupt the streaming industry, like a sort of Paramount Decrees for the streaming age, since monopolies on originals is what keeps people locked in

Who exactly are they supposed to be losing to?

Adversarial interoperability FTW

But it’s not copyrighted if it’s AI-generated, right? Or are there human co-writers and/or performers?

Why should we care about this particular horse/kart race?

Continuing the great American tradition of jury nullification

Ignore OP’s weird question, the book looks really cool

“Just Us” by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

His recent monologues are decent too, like the ones on why AI is bullshit and why there are no ethical billionaires

The last 100+ pages of his book are about solutions

He just published a major new book entitled Enshittification

TIL the feds think Fortnite doesn’t have text chat

Their audiobooks are also DRM-free!