Re:Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video
by account42 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @09:24AM
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> No. Money is what enables ordinary people to produce creative output and feed themselves while not depending on others.
Money is the embodiment of being dependent on others. You can't eat money. Money has no use except to exchange for something else.
> We're living in the first time in human history where producing cultural output is now available to most people, rather than a privilege of a minority sponsored by patrons at a royal court or privileged heirs.
There was some "high art" that wan't available to everyone but saying the majority of cultural output was. Sharing it was just not as efficient as it is today.
> This is because, not despite the fact, that culture is now a business.
No, it's because copying digital content costs nothing.
Also because farming has become efficient enough that we don't actually need everyone to work full time to survive. Not even close to. But we are still stuck in an economic model that is based on trading scarce resources.
Money is the embodiment of being dependent on others. You can't eat money. Money has no use except to exchange for something else.
> We're living in the first time in human history where producing cultural output is now available to most people, rather than a privilege of a minority sponsored by patrons at a royal court or privileged heirs.
There was some "high art" that wan't available to everyone but saying the majority of cultural output was. Sharing it was just not as efficient as it is today.
> This is because, not despite the fact, that culture is now a business.
No, it's because copying digital content costs nothing.
Also because farming has become efficient enough that we don't actually need everyone to work full time to survive. Not even close to. But we are still stuck in an economic model that is based on trading scarce resources.