No nuance and characters are saying the obvious stuff, because viewers are looking at another device while watching. We’re so cooked.

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[–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I remember reading about the making of Stranger Things, on Netflix, by that pair of brothers. They swore to themselves to do exactly 2 things when they made and sold the show: (1) never sell out for the sake of money - especially don't make stupid CGI animations that suck rather than staying true to the art - and (2) don't keep the show going longer than like one season, or basically don't just make them for the sake of making them, but instead keep it tight and only make something with a purpose in mind, you know?

And that explains why the show went off the deep end immediately, after like the first season. The brothers had a fight and I think split up even over it. One wanted the purity of the show, while the other wanted the cold hard cash.

Money isn't wrong. Even the love of money isn't wrong. It's wanting it above all else that leads to the enshittification of everything that that attitude touches.

Fortunately there are other things to enjoy, besides TV:-).

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Money is bad and we should have an economy without it

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Easier said than done.

    More generally, human nature is prone to biases, and unless we resist them we will continually fall prey to them.

    For example, just because chasing after money to the exclusion of all else is bad doesn't make communism good, and even if it were, well I don't want to get banned from this community by going further there, talking about contemporary and recent examples of nations that tried to implement that:-).

    Stay curious!

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