Leftists immediately seized on the streaming model as a strategy to disconnect their unpopular propaganda from market forces. It’s basically socialism in entertainment; non-woke content drives viewership and subscriptions, and then that money is redistributed to woke creators who produce garbage content that is insulated from any appraisal by the free market. Leftist creators rely on subsidies generated by “productive” content.
Well put. It's like the BBC model in the UK. Force everyone with a TV to pay a "subscription" to support the channel so they don't have to factor in pesky market forces before shoehorning in woke garbage.
Governments funding the arts is similar to this, isn't it? Tax productive people working in productive industries, and use those taxes to pay people to loaf around and work on vanity projects - most of which, these days, will be little more than propaganda.
Leftists immediately seized on the streaming model as a strategy to disconnect their unpopular propaganda from market forces. It’s basically socialism in entertainment; non-woke content drives viewership and subscriptions, and then that money is redistributed to woke creators who produce garbage content that is insulated from any appraisal by the free market. Leftist creators rely on subsidies generated by “productive” content.
Well put. It's like the BBC model in the UK. Force everyone with a TV to pay a "subscription" to support the channel so they don't have to factor in pesky market forces before shoehorning in woke garbage.
Governments funding the arts is similar to this, isn't it? Tax productive people working in productive industries, and use those taxes to pay people to loaf around and work on vanity projects - most of which, these days, will be little more than propaganda.