below the line crew earning $300/day (or acting as unpaid volunteers) on a production while sharing in none of the $200m profit of a runaway b.o. success*is* actual exploitation, even if it's normalized in the industry.
How your coworker looks at you when you used a magic wishing stick to curse her with an uncontrolled and boundless love for you which she is imprisoned by
compensation on film sets shouldnโt really be a discourse thing because there is a very obvious thing it reveals, and that is that labor *should* result in some form of literal ownership
this language is now indexed as a form of racial harassment. The mere mention of Palestinians and their ongoing mass killing, siege and starvation is treated as a form of bigotry. I donโt know what else to say other than this is completely dystopian and insane.
If people want to travel because they think it would be cool to see this or that thing, thatโs fine, but the idea that people are learning anything novel or valuable from these experiences is absurd. In order to learn anything that isnโt already on Wikipedia or repeated on a thousand travel blogs youโd actually have to go some place thatโs incredibly remote, dangerous or unpleasant and almost nobody is interested in doing that.
@toxoplasmodium@admcrlsn@nikicaga Mahan ran a campaign that appealed to basically no one besides his fellow tech bro freaks, which is why he finished in 6th place