Hey cool. You make all the calculations you want. As long as you’re supporting creators then that’s all that matters. I reiterate, there are people who take great personal offense to having to pay money for anything and you don’t appear to be one of them.
That doesn’t change the fact that artists and creatives have no other outlet than to be beholden by their platform. Unless you’re going and buying hatsune miku fanart prints at your farmers market, unethucal consumption under captitalism also means trying to find out how to provide for the staff who still contribute to meaningful art, even if that is the set designer for an Avengers slop movie.
I had this sort of sympathy until I saw how openly hostile people were in their open jealousy over talented people. I kept running into these people for years who were just so angry at the fact that they had to pay someone for their time and talent.
This gets to be a little offshooty for other things I tend to have less popular opinions on, but it’s the same people who feel that piracy should be the norm. No art, performance, or entertainment should be allowed to compel payment and it should all be free. This includes people who absolutely froth about advertisments on their Youtube videos. Granted 5 ads in a row is ridiculous but peraonally I want my artists and performers to be paid egregiously and I will suffer some small inconveniences to make sure they ateast get something from me.
But I think the venn diagram of people who are obsessed with AI and the people who just take offense to having to spend money on anything is a pretty tight one.
I think the most upsetting part of AI is discovering how many people were so ready for it, like they were just waiting for something to show up that they could offload their lack of creativity or responsibility onto.
I instantly lost friends because the first thing out of their mouth was ‘thank God I never have to pay anyone to commission art ever again and the little guy has access to good OC art.’
These people were not functioning before AI.
Huh. Yeah I have kind of a three strikes thing. I can eat something with onion powder once, but if I do it again withing a couple days it starts fucking me up.
I got officially tested as a teen. I’m also allergic to corn and apples, which are two other incredibly overused food additive bases. I actually didn’t even really feel any effects until my 20’s wgere all pf a sudden I was in an Emergency room in incredible pain. It took taking the allergies seriously to clear it up because otherwise there was apparently no other explaination for why I felt like I was turning inside out every few days.
I wanna know where you shop. I still have to run the gamut of ‘I’m allergic to onions’, ‘does that include green onions?’ ‘…yes.’ among other key signifiera that people don’t really think about what an onion is normally.
I really miss garlic.
The ‘functional unemployment rate’ that reaches 24% includes ‘those involuntarily working part time for povery wages less than $26,000 annually before taxes’ according to CBS news
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/functional-unemployment-us-labor-market-analysis/
The disability rate and disenfranchisement rates are different statistics. Just straight unemployment period amongst those who can work and/or are lloking is the lower single digit figure, generally around 4-7%