@jjellisart Could you explain it ? We're historical beings, determined by our material conditions, but the past is out of grasp and all ideologies reinterpret it as an imaginary vector into the future. Furthermore not even all fascists were nostalgic. Futurists obviously weren't, for example
@TheLaurenChen What do you mean by clearly? No one got offered points. It was a non-union movie and the crew agreed in good faith to overwork underpaid and not flip the production to keep the budget down. The producers, obviously, still took the biggest risk, but the crew did help to reduce it.
@Caol_MacCormaic It wasn't scripted and she said she felt embarrassed, but it's also obvious that Woody Allen was playing dumb. That's always been his brand of comedy.
@tedfrank It was a non-union movie. I think the issue here, precisely, is that she feels the crew didn't get paid in full as they got convinced not to flip the production to keep the budget low, but now the movie is a success they didn't get rewarded for their help, which is understandable
@saeedtaji Yeah. Insane reactions. I absolutely agree that those who took the financial risk should get the bulk of the profit, but if you got people to help you with your non-union movie by overworking for cheap then it's only common sense to pay them in kind if the movie blows up.
@dystopiangf I get where you're coming from, but this is sort of like when leftists try to dismiss neoclassicism by pointing out that Greek statues were painted. We can only meaningfully apprehend the past via our imagination and we always reinvent it as a retro-projection of a sought-future.
You may argue that she agreed to those conditions and someone else would have accepted the job anyway if she didn't, but if this is how you treat your collaborators even during insane success, then to you there's no point to communities and nations. It's all just economic zones.
Not a Marxist, but it must be acknowledged that he was right that capitalists will stretch profit margins even at the risk of completely alienating the work force. Too many spiritual boomers can't grasp that we live in community and it's not sensible to exploit your own people.
If you get hired to work for cheap on what is being touted as a passion project that may not even break even, and you help to deliver a product that makes hundreds of millions, you obviously will feel deceived when the producers can't bother to give you even a symbolic bonus.
@TrungTPhan We live in community. This mindset will lead to all labor being done by some Indian/illegal willing to accept a worse contract, but when they get the chance of hiring they will hire their own people for fair wages/bonuses. You can sell a high trust society, but not buy it back.
@muditfx Fighting for a greater cause is also pathological. You are only deferring the misrecognition from inside to outside, but it's a mirage regardless. Instead of constructing yourself as the idea of someone who is x, you do it as someone with purpose y, but you're still just as sick.