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Weinstein - I've long had this theory... aerocontrols Send a noteboard - 12/10/2017 03:31:11 PM

that the reason Hollywood dislikes the idea of capitalism so much is that they operate in one of the areas where it fails the hardest. I mean, being good-looking and connected can help with a career anywhere, but nowhere nearly so much as in Hollywood, where you're truly swimming upstream if you're just a nobody who wants a job. People move to LA, scrape by on nearly nothing for years, and maybe make it in a lottery-style contest where image is nearly everything and talent is almost nothing. Is Jennifer Lawrence really the most talented actress in her cohort? Emma Stone? Is Hollywood as far from a meritocracy as it gets in the US? Do they look at the next actress over who has never had any work, or maybe think back to that friend who was also seeking acting employment and realize "She could do my job - I'm no better than her". Same with the actors, of course. And producers - Jon Peters rose from being a hairdresser to co-running Sony Pictures. Because one of his customers was Barbra Streisand.

It's no wonder, I think, that so many Hollywood stars think capitalism sucks.


Likewise with the revelations about Weinstein - Hollywood thinks we live in a rape culture because they actually live in a rape culture.

Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion.
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Weinstein - I've long had this theory... - 12/10/2017 03:31:11 PM 1055 Views
I love the Hillary outrage. Like her husband isn't just as bad. *NM* - 12/10/2017 03:42:18 PM 315 Views
Re: I love the Hillary outrage. Like her husband isn't just as bad. - 12/10/2017 03:49:07 PM 572 Views
Just because he drugged and raped a 13 year old he doesn't deserve an Oscar? - 12/10/2017 04:01:19 PM 639 Views
that is some wishfull thinking - 12/10/2017 04:36:31 PM 614 Views
umm... sure. - 12/10/2017 04:50:37 PM 551 Views
I think she has to be very careful - 12/10/2017 03:53:00 PM 577 Views
Replied in wrong place. *NM* - 12/10/2017 06:20:38 PM 301 Views
Look at Silicon Valley - 12/10/2017 04:32:22 PM 576 Views
But what is the cause, and what is the effect? - 12/10/2017 04:43:10 PM 631 Views
I think it's a lot more complicated - 12/10/2017 06:43:56 PM 648 Views
I think we agree it's complicated - 12/10/2017 07:07:08 PM 614 Views
I've often thought of lot of their leftism/anti-capitalism is based on guilt. - 12/10/2017 06:21:39 PM 634 Views
Weinstein was a virtue signaller - 12/10/2017 06:59:13 PM 622 Views
The music industry is just as bad - 12/10/2017 06:59:34 PM 629 Views
Really it is worse, much much worse. - 20/10/2017 05:55:15 PM 577 Views
Seems to me there's a rather more obvious explanation. - 12/10/2017 07:33:58 PM 702 Views
I prefer the artsie all emotion no reasoning explanation *NM* - 13/10/2017 02:09:45 PM 320 Views
You're pretty amazingly optimistic about how meritocratic capitalism is. - 12/10/2017 07:18:38 PM 569 Views
wut? - 12/10/2017 09:57:09 PM 605 Views
Movies are similar to start-ups - 12/10/2017 10:26:05 PM 620 Views
A question for the ages that has an answer: - 13/10/2017 03:09:29 PM 603 Views
Hm. You're completely misunderstanding my post. - 12/10/2017 11:09:11 PM 627 Views
I think you're making this up - 13/10/2017 03:03:18 PM 596 Views
Uh, the two sentences from your post that I quoted? - 13/10/2017 07:24:58 PM 640 Views
The two sentences you quoted don't say anything positive about capitalism - 13/10/2017 08:12:49 PM 555 Views
What actual point would that be, then? - 13/10/2017 11:55:56 PM 607 Views
You're amazingly ignorant of what capitalism consists. - 12/10/2017 11:15:51 PM 685 Views
absolutely - 13/10/2017 05:09:40 PM 725 Views
Isn't that likely the future of teaching? - 13/10/2017 05:43:15 PM 701 Views
Could be - 13/10/2017 06:05:42 PM 655 Views
Not even close. It is control environment where success is bestowed - 13/10/2017 02:16:09 PM 741 Views
See, if it were communism, everybody working on a movie would get paid the same. - 13/10/2017 07:41:18 PM 680 Views
are talked communism in theory or practice? - 17/10/2017 03:36:59 AM 641 Views

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