Oh, that's yucky; sounds familiar from his Lotus Eaters appearance. Don't court the approval of those that would see you fail.
Personally, I can't fault someone for coming up with a catchy soundbyte and headline. If only his argument didn't stick to 'only two tribes', whether it's learned behavior or intentional. I'd bet the majority of covid skeptics aren't against polio vaccination.
Just looked that up myself, my mistake was looking up "non-binding contract" yesterday instead of term-sheet, which is the phrase in Shapiro's video description.
Still, the proposal itself indicates a traditional command-and-control culture at Daily Wire, resulting in the ego driven and uncompromising character attacks from DW hosts (at least Owens and Shapiro). A metaphor borrowed from ThinkBeforeYouSleep is with Judo, where if to resist submissions you don't make any openings, your opponent is likewise going to stay on guard and you won't have any openings to exploit. If Shapiro, and Boreing could acknowledge some validity of the grievances, highlighted the status quo of big entertainment companies, and toned down the personality attacks, they would have looked better, strengthened the conservative movement, and preserved their relationship with Crowder.
If the DW business culture was more bottom-up and flexibly structured, a chiller approach to to this event would have occurred. Much more importantly for DW, their cinema venture is jeopardized if they don't have an unconventional M.O. able to tackle large, uncertain creative projects. Could be headed down the same ruinous path as Disney+, Paramount+, Netflix, et al, but without their incongruantly deep pockets.
Edit: Ben Shapiro being more humble in the past, which helped his reputation. Sargon had a good point about the BBC ordeal, that the host was barely discernible from shitlibs, regardless of the softball questions that flipped Ben out.
Between the egotistical and editorialized click-bait headline, and the intentionally misleading video description unexplained in the 12 minute clip, Shapiro can really persona non grata himself.
There might have been non-binding parts of the contract, and you might be right about penalties being de-facto voidable, but I don't think Shapiro had the latter part in mind when shaming crowder.
I went almost 3 years without listening to Shapiro, and I'm disappointed instead of angry. Can any lawyers clear up what made the contract non-binding?
There's an term, article, or comment I didn't save that precisely explained how powerful enemies can benefit off fighting each other (probably in the context of the Ukraine context or unusual American politicians), with the point of conflict of interest causing a feedback loop. In this case Daily Wire vs big tech, where DW justifies its business model by opposing the left side of the establishment, while between the lines being much alike to the establishment. Similar to but not kayfabe in that the enmity is genuine, and related to prospiracy.
My personal write-off for her was listening to her Sunday interview with Shapiro where she critiqued Shapiro's constitutionally based disdain for presidential pomp and circumstance. The premise itself was interesting, that casuals and normies don't relate to formalism and intrinsic virtue, but her tone and conclusion that such people should be catered to was fundamentally leftist in attitude and rationale.
Note: I'm reverse-steelmanning her as my description makes her argument appear more profound than it really was.
I have no problem with Klaven and Walsh. Knowles I've barely listened to. When Shapiro is off, it's in the manner of legacy media and a liability to heterodox movements.
We all knew about Candace since before KIA2 was active, but a normie coming across one of her clips shared on Facebook doesn't stand a chance. For clarity, I referring to Shapiro and Boreing (and any private investors I'm unaware of) when I said Daily Wire, not any of their other hosts or writers.
Daily Wire the business became suspect when Ben had blinders regarding the military industrial complex, promoted the vaccine (so I've heard, haven't listened for more than 4 minutes since May 2020), and provided risk-averse coverage of the presidential election and Jan 6; this recent event is just dramatic evidence. Similarly, every everyday Joe should have been outraged about potential govt. surveillance abuse before Assange and Snowden were breaking news, before the Patriot Act was a possibility.
Trust but verify, especially after all the publicized incidents of conservative grifters and lapses in judgement. And as you said, anyone that gets personally offended over recording legal business negotiations would make a very stupid and undependable business partner. Granted Daily Wire is being coldly methodological, as opposed to drama vortexes like Milo.
The damning part was that there was resistance on DW's side to the Crowders suggestion that the contract was out-of-touch and excessive with the brand and likeness in perpituity, and that up-and-coming talent should mentored. Reminds me of Steve Job's demeanor towards John Carmack. There wasn't a strong, explicit acknowledgement that the initial proposed contract was intended as a template instead of suggestion of leverage. Shapiro explained going into business with Boreing because some dinosaurs (probably Koch Brothers or Murdoch) were clueless regarding online mediums and younger audiences. DW isn't as stodgy and disconnected as legacy companies, but it's a shame they have the same top-down attitude that I presume was part of Shapiro's criticism.
In business it's okay to have a rider, like Van Halen's brown M&M clause, to make sure the other party is experienced and attentive to the venture. A shady example I've heard about personally is a independent owned establishment getting a contract from a management company that has the MC's revenue or profit share claimed before taxes, which wouldn't require MC to actually make net profit for the owners. Said management company (Destination Hotels, 5+ years ago) was being underhanded and subtle (hospitality is by and large a grimey, uninspired industry), while these indie networks are just strong-arming the desperate and impulsive.
Not only do other conservative media companies pull this crap, but it's standard in the entertainment industry in general. Machinima had such blatantly awful contracts that I don't feel sympathy for talent that negligently took shitty offers, but it's depressing how much Machinima hamstrung the golden age of Youtube content.
This sad state of affairs happened because hardware infrastructure costs were astronomical in the mid aughts, forcing the founders to take venture capital and/or get acquired. Once the non-founder MBA types are in charge, there was no hope for a back-boned owner to call the advertising hacks on their bluff, and get a better deal for Youtube and the content creators.
Edit: Examples from RTvee about other political media.
The bigger failure was the both the production company(s) not rigorously enforcing redundant safety standards (cast+crew double checking weaponry after the armorer), and crew not reporting unsafe conduct to a regulatory body or insurance company, if there was a mechanism with real consequences to do so. Frankly, the film industry should require firearm competence certification for anyone handling a gun or realistic prop. All the above are much more important than the 2nd rule by itself.
The first 2 years of activity of the reddit kia2 had higher quality discussion than both current iterations, but I find that parallel to a good multiplayer game having a better spread of players (smoother skill distribution) during its first 2 years and more willing to explore and experiment. This community still converses in good faith, with the exception of some misuse of the downvote button, but the reddit-like sorting mechanism just has its limits.
The country (along with Belarus and Ukraine) has had too much brain drain to be redeemable. Maybe if there was a break away state some part of Siberia to enact Atlas Shrugged. Despite inertia of repression, the rest of Eastern Europe has potential to a relative haven before the West collapses, but NATO/EU really has them underneath their thumb.
My additional thoughts:
His lore videos are entertaining, if you don't mind his rehearsed accent, but frequently enough inaccurate. When he did a video with Sargon, I didn't quite agree with his takes on how to fix the TW franchise, although I'd have to rewatch to give a fair assessment.
The way CA/GW and their current pop-tart fanbase treated Arch and Volound were the nail in the coffin for me. I'll still get WH3 years later if game+dlc is discounted under $60 since SFO mod makes the game fun enough for me.
I was on that subreddit for way too long. All I can say is that before 2016, I never came across weak-minded guilt-trips of anyone not wanting a casual-fest, with double-digit upvotes.
Sh0e sorta went off the rails and inserted herself into twittertube dramafests. I've never known sfo to gravitate towards a scandalous demeanor.
Anyone who's done any research into security/privacy matters or social psychology should understand that security through obscurity is a widespread reflex that only works under very limited and expensive circumstances. Creative Assembly and Games Workshop have also been gas-lighting the shit out of their fanbases The interesting part to me, and what I think is most relevant to this community, is consoomers who apologize for dogshit companies tend to be very dense people in general. The type that get mad that their coworker makes 10% more than them rather than find a new job when the c-suite shits all over them.
Edit: Another example of denseness is in the comment section. The mod author was being tongue-in-cheek by stating "supported by CA" and some superminds just had to correct it
Crazy that marketing can be 3-4x of already bloated production budgets. Even if Hollywood contracted or collapsed under these market conditions, they've already conditioned audiences to consume utter shite.
It would be nice to know if all 10 minutes were filler that was gonna be cut anyways. Some of the characters are lacking any depth or development, and there were many missed opportunities for any kind of social nuance.
Does anyone more familiar with Hollywood accounting know if this movie is breaking even or a loss?
Remember HR departments exist only because of good sounding government legislation that had the opposite effect of helping employees.
I hate parroting cliched narratives, but John Carmack has always been focused on the engineering side of products, to the partial neglect of workplace dynamics or market awareness. I could recall interview/presentation examples from him and other ID ID founders if anyone is interested.
John characterizes the Meta/Realitylabs failure as a workplace efficiency problem, when he knew full well that the company was antithetical to the hacker/hobbyist ethic when they bought out Occulus. VR is much more enthusiast than a smartphone or social-media site, thus the FAANG post-startup mentality doomed their VR venture just as with Amazon's games and high budget TV shows. Valve and GabeN have had much more success paying some respect to the hacker mentality or otherwise respecting the userbase when applicable.
I wonder if the Zenimax lawsuit was the reason for Carmack sticking around after the acquisition.
A lot of that is due to simple economic illiteracy among politicians and proles, which compound and enable whatever wealthy parasites setup. STEM degrees are pursued by millennials and zoomers since liberal arts bachelors no longer serve as general IQ tests for entry-level positions that pay more than unskilled labor. This started when morons thought restricting IQ tests, and other wishfully rationalized regulations necessitated the creation of HR departments in the first place, wouldn't result in a ballooning overhead and other poor tradeoffs.
Proles are always the most culpable for whatever dysfunction overtakes civilizations.
The oft repeated point about GNU, such as in the video, glosses over the important part that Unix is really about having an accessible and fully fledged computing environment. Most Androids have locked bootloaders (usually because of carrier-bundling restrictions) and thus gimp user-controlled computing, which is at minimum being able to install an adblocking Youtube app without fuss.
Other non-GNU open-source userspaces such as Alpine Linux and the BSDs, or the now niche proprietary Unices like Solaris are more compatible with each other than with Android, but that's a lesser point derived from the important part.
This blogpost I think captures what the top comment alluded to. Comparitively minuscule capital from Linux Foundation, Cannonical (Mark Shuttleworth mismanaging top-tier talent), Red Hat, etc went towards making Desktop Linux competitive and distinguished against Microsoft and Apple for semi-technical users; novice programmers, artists, and scientists/engineers alike.
"Alt-right" larpers love to brand anyone who questions Kanye's version of antisemitism as normies, but Kanye's business and social decision making is dumb-neurotypical as they come.
The industry, from hospitals, insurance, and pharma is dysfunctional since Americans decided to listen to proggies and cronies instead of libertarians. Any public mandates should be rejected for pragmatic reasons, not just ideological sentiment. It's valid for schools to require vaccination, but not while compulsory schooling and public-schools w/o vouchers are a thing.