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If something has genuine entertainment value, why wouldn't people create it because they want to be entertained, or to entertain others? Without needing to worry about money to survive, lots of people would pursue arts, literaly just producing "entertainment" for others.
I don't understand how you get the idea that without profit motive nobody would be creative, or life would turn gray and bland. Restaurants would be just as popular or more popular: people would take more risks and try new things because they aren't afraid of failing and potentially ruining their lives. Similarly with movies: most junk produced now is just the same playbook because it is guaranteed massive profit; there's little creativity involved.
There would maybe be a tiny fraction of the entertainment we have now, how would people get enough capital to START the businesses? If min wage is $30, they would have to be instantly profitable or they would run or of money paying employees and shutdown. Movies could never be funded, even a $1 mill movie would take someone saving up for 33k hours of work.
The only thing that could really exist in a full communist society is one person businesses and not even that really. Historically full communism hasn't resulted in a cultural boom like you expect, the USSR was a shit hole and people just worked and bought food - there wasn't anything else to do.
We just need a mix, good working conditions, with good quality of life. I'd rather enjoy myself for slightly less money than do nothing with slightly more.
Huh, somebody tell Mosfilm that they didn't exist. They'll be surprised. Speaking from one's ass is generally considered rude. Next you're gonna tell us they didn't go to space or develop cool linear programming algorithms or other advanced research. Never change, Redditor.
Indeed. One of the best films ever produced, Come and See from 1985, was produced by Mosfilm. There's seemingly some confusion where expensive must mean quality, and it can't be quality unless it's expensive. That's utter nonsense: the highest grossing movies are bullshit propaganda Marvel movies that have no lasting value; and some of the best and most lasting films, such as Come and See, made "only" $21M at the box office and so would be considered a flop.
Profit motive in entertainment kills creativity, because creativity (as risk) is potentially costly, and not guaranteed money. Profit motive finds a profitable "script" (see the Marvel franchise) and just prints it in a thousand different fonts and calls it a thousand successful films.
One of the last Yankee movies I've watched was "Marriage Story" and even though it was a bit on the expensive side due to the cast and I didn't even love it, it did shine a huge light on "why don't I like Yankee movies" when everything I was used to coming out of that is just Transformers-level. There's a reason that little games like Undertale and Minecraft are so much more beloved than big budget hype-garbage like Cyberpunk. Capitalism ruins art, that's why artists hate it.
God I miss when Minecraft was a small game, Microsoft stuffed it full of greedy DLC and made Bedrock version (which was designed to be the "faster" Minecraft ) so slow from the bloat that the Switch version is damn near unplayable now
I have never moved on from version 1.5.2 ever since my favourite modder from the "Better Than Wolves" mod decided to stay in that version. Some 8 years later when I finally got coerced into playing the 1.15 it just felt like the game completely stagnated both technically and artistically and was just adding fluff to maintain engagement. It used to run on my old 32 bit Pentium with 4GB RAM like a breeze, but oh wow, bees! The Nether update was fun I guess, but I've seen better mods in like 2014.
I refuse to run the bedrock edition on the simple principle that it's not moddable and doesn't run on Linux and at that point it's the opposite of why I even bought the game back in the day. Every Microsoft decision with it since buying Mojang, from bankrupting Telltale to keeping two parallel minecraft main versions, to whatever the hell was Minecraft Dungeons/Legends, is a great case study in enshitification by itself. If I get triggered enough I may even do a write-up on it in the weekend lol.