The Ankler interviews a striking writer who makes a striking analogy.
Every real business relies on raw materials or basic labor, and makes money by organizing and selling the materials and labor.
“You wouldn’t have content, you wouldn’t be talking about streaming, if you didn’t have writers and actors to create the raw material.”
Honest businesses respect the farmers or miners or writers and pay them reliably and adequately, because honest businesses want to maintain their supply of wheat or iron or scripts.
Wall Street doesn’t need to form two-way loyalty because their SOLE BUSINESS is theft and murder and piracy. The only purpose of owning a farm or studio is to destroy its production and short it for a tax loss.
FDR tried to restore this two-way loyalty in both farming and artistry. Farmers were supported by a subsidy on production so they could keep going when “the market” crashed commodity prices to create a tax loss. Writers were given purposeful projects, which remain today as monuments to good historical work. Stonemasons were given purposeful projects, which remain now as parks and buildings. At the same time FDR strictly restrained Wall Street and forced it to obey laws against theft and fraud and piracy.
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