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Uh, the two sentences from your post that I quoted? Legolas Send a noteboard - 13/10/2017 07:24:58 PM

View original postApparently I'm convinced... what did I say that made you think so?

I'll quote them again if you like:

'the reason Hollywood dislikes the idea of capitalism so much is that they operate in one of the areas where it fails the hardest'

and

'Is Hollywood as far from a meritocracy as it gets in the US?'

Unless, I suppose, you meant those two as entirely separate points and you were referring to capitalism failing 'the hardest' in Hollywood in some other way that has nothing to do with the meritocracy. In that case I misunderstood you and it's no wonder you also misunderstood me.

View original postI mean, you may think you're arguing against my beliefs, but you're not arguing against anything I've said, or even implied, are you?

Let's put it this way: from where I'm standing my replies to your posts are rather a lot more relevant to what you wrote than the other way around.

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Weinstein was a virtue signaller aerocontrols - 12/10/2017 06:59:13 PM 493 Views
The music industry is just as bad random thoughts - 12/10/2017 06:59:34 PM 510 Views
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Seems to me there's a rather more obvious explanation. Legolas - 12/10/2017 07:33:58 PM 582 Views
I prefer the artsie all emotion no reasoning explanation *NM* random thoughts - 13/10/2017 02:09:45 PM 258 Views
You're pretty amazingly optimistic about how meritocratic capitalism is. Legolas - 12/10/2017 07:18:38 PM 448 Views
wut? aerocontrols - 12/10/2017 09:57:09 PM 462 Views
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A question for the ages that has an answer: aerocontrols - 13/10/2017 03:09:29 PM 483 Views
Hm. You're completely misunderstanding my post. Legolas - 12/10/2017 11:09:11 PM 500 Views
the point you are misisng is the succes is selection process not a talent process random thoughts - 13/10/2017 02:22:04 PM 459 Views
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Uh, the two sentences from your post that I quoted? Legolas - 13/10/2017 07:24:58 PM 503 Views
The two sentences you quoted don't say anything positive about capitalism aerocontrols - 13/10/2017 08:12:49 PM 431 Views
What actual point would that be, then? Legolas - 13/10/2017 11:55:56 PM 471 Views
People move to LA, scrape by on nearly nothing for years, aerocontrols - 14/10/2017 12:17:00 AM 519 Views
Right. Yeah, I think we've both wasted more than enough of our time on this then. *NM* Legolas - 14/10/2017 12:39:29 AM 212 Views
You're amazingly ignorant of what capitalism consists. Cannoli - 12/10/2017 11:15:51 PM 560 Views
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Isn't that likely the future of teaching? aerocontrols - 13/10/2017 05:43:15 PM 585 Views
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Funnily enough, we seem to agree on most points. Here was me thinking I wrote in plain English... *NM* Legolas - 13/10/2017 07:29:15 PM 257 Views
There seemed to be an implication that there's something wrong with it, or that more is expected *NM* Cannoli - 14/10/2017 06:08:59 AM 261 Views
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See, if it were communism, everybody working on a movie would get paid the same. Legolas - 13/10/2017 07:41:18 PM 566 Views
are talked communism in theory or practice? random thoughts - 17/10/2017 03:36:59 AM 493 Views
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