glockenspiel

@glockenspiel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Greed isn’t the ultimate human trait. Cooperation and curiosity are. We never would have built societies without either. We never would have advanced to the point we have without both. Everyone has greed in them, just like everyone has the opportunity to be angry or sad. But the notion that it is the ultimate human trait or somehow stronger than other characteristics is truly capitalist propaganda meant to justify their immoral hoarding of our wealth.

  After all, if greed is the most natural and strongest human attribute… well, the do-nothing takers at the tippy top of the food chain can just continue to suck our blood and deprive us of our agency since it is natural.

  There is a reason we don’t live in libertarian hellscapes. It is because greed is not the ultimate human trait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the AMPTP is refusing to grant the WGA vs. their profits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for sharing! I probably wouldn’t have seen it otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the AMPTP is refusing to grant the WGA vs. their profits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Great breakdown! Given that this is Lemmy and we trend toward more tech focused, people might gel better with Apple and Microsoft. They both do this sort of thing, but Apple is well known for their Irish tax haven holding all of their IP and other rights so Apple can lease it back from themselves and account for pure profit as expenses. That’s also how Amazon pays little to no taxes. Or sometimes these company’s pay negative tax rates meaning they get government welfare to buy billionaires fudge rounds presumably, in conservative populist parlance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the AMPTP is refusing to grant the WGA vs. their profits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Revenue is used because this industry is notorious for “Hollywood accounting” to avoid having any actual profits to avoid residuals based on net.

  Some of the biggesr blockbusters of all time are, thanks to Hollywood accounting, net losers. Forrest Gump is a classic example: it made almost a billion dollars in revenue vs a $55 million budget. But thanks to tax evasion techniques the movie is actually a huge financial loser on paper, losing more than $65 million if you look at net.

  You can’t trust non-workers, who exist entirely off the wealth they can cheat out of workers, to be honest.

  So that is why gross revenue is used in Hollywood.