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Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
While I will post the link to the tweet be aware that there a like 100 blue check bootlickers defending Netflix here https://twitter.com/SaeedDiCaprio/status/1699136050331799627
I do think that AMC not netflix are the ones that owe him residuals
Why should he be earning anything from it at this point anyway? If I'm paid to build a barn for a farmer, I'm not entitled to a percentage of the farmers profits every year he uses the barn. It's his barn, I just worked to create it. If I'm the camera guy on a movie, I don't get residuals for years afterwards. I get paid for my labour and then move on to the next job.
Aaron Paul did a stellar job playing Jessie in Breaking Bad, but why does that entitle him to rent every time the character is shown somewhere? He was already paid handsomely for his labour. Why should he be paid more when he's no longer working on it?
For a different angle than what other people are saying, I'd argue that it's just because of the particular way the commodification of the arts works under the current system: companies that did nothing but purchase a commodified license that then allows them to commodify the work themselves shouldn't be making money off that deal, in fact that entire deal should be impossible, but because that is the status quo it means that rightfully that wealth that's being generated belongs to the workers who created the commodity in the first place.
That should not be the status quo, obviously. Under a better system this wouldn't even be a question: movies would not be commodities generating revenue, at least not domestically, and would instead be produced with public funding through any number of possible systems; actors and other workers would be compensated for their labor, and potentially entitled to further rewards depending on the reception the work gets, but in a more even and equitable fashion than the current paradigm of a select few people making fortunes (and still being undercompensated because of how valuable movies are as a commodity) while everyone else involved gets worked to the bone for much, much less; any profits turned through international distribution would then go to further subsidize the arts instead of disappearing into some executive's bank account as profits do now.
Is there a way to have an open source community note that’s more transparency?
Probably quite difficult because it'd be fairly easy for a big company or PR consultancy to astroturf.
Residuals would not exist under socialism. I have nothing against any labor action and if actors and writers can extract concessions then good for them, but I feel like it should be said.
If we think of Residuals as a form of profit-sharing, then I think basically a similar system would work in a system where media production was worker-owned. But they do kind of demonstrate the unfairness of market based rewards, as it can be sort of a lottery for the workers (with some people getting rich as hell for little work, while many others just have to continue drudging along creating content).
Residuals are definitely an incoherent concept in a fully communist system, especially where all created media is free culture.
In the context of the system we actually live in, I think residuals are good actually; they're one of the few examples of workers clawing back a proportion of the profits.
Yeah, I absolutely agree that workers should take everything they can.