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‘Everybody’s at each other’s throats’: James Cameron says he has left the US permanently
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
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This some bOtH sIdEs trash?
Not at all
Yeah it’s not as bad as the headline alone makes it seem for sure! Still, weak ass quote. :p
More like- just a rich douche seeing the way the wind is blowing, and is getting out before the guillotines are built.
A quick skim of the article, he also cites how the US doesn’t believe in vaccines and that trump is a train wreck. That said, he did make the quote and is a rich douche so…. Point stands
As far as rich douches go, James Cameron is probably one of the cleaner ones.
He’s still rich off the exploitation of other laborers though
Who got exploited in his case?
3D animators at least
So if he hadn't made Avatar, they would have been better off?
No, if he hadn't been allowed to take billions of dollars in profits off the movies and intead the rewards had been more equitably distributed, they would have been better off.
I don't get what's so difficult about this concept. One guy doesn't do much work, gets most of the money. Bunch of people do most of the work, get very little money. Way too many people with no money, "this is the best possible system and I will defend it with my dying breath."
You're describing a valid criticism of Capitalism, which I share 100%.
I just don't think that translates well to a direct guilt for Cameron.
He couldn't have brought his movies to the screen if he didn't work within this system.
Of course now that he's been successful, he could definitely donate his wealth.
On the other hand, I could also donate all $50k of my life savings without starving, while others are currently starving.
And I'm not going to do it. I carry the same type of guilt, only with lower numbers.
Solidarity is working within the system. If he has the ability to negotiate that compensation for himself he can negotiate it for the other people working on the project instead, he just didn't.
I think Keanu Reeves and the Matrix is a good example of being in the system and sharing within it.
:|
I think the opinion of those that have worked with him would be most relevant to that.
That's probably the one area where he comes off most as a douche. He's notoriously demanding to work with
He also, earlier on, had a history of less safe practices
But I'd put him as one of the few wealthy people that actually created something others can't. His movies are a creation of his own. Not the result of inevitable scientific advancement
OpenAI/ChatGPT was the result inevitable scientific advancement. The game changer was a publicly published academic paper (by a Google researcher), not anything Sam Altman or OpenAI did. Same can be said about a lot of modern products that created our wealthiest billionaires
Are you seriously claiming that Cameron made his movies without scientific advancements? Cameron used the result of hundreds of technical advancements and patents in order to make his movies. He didn't invent movie-making.
He’s profiting from a system that exploits workers, opinions are irrelevant
Every one of us profits from a system that exploits workers. There are workers who can't even get online, they're suffering more than you, and what little you have is partly due to their underpaid efforts.
Don't let imperfection be the enemy of good. We're all a part of a system that exploits others, so that can't be any useful metric as it paints everyone.
eye roll
Why would he stay and help you if you're just going to guillotine him afterwards?
I mean, “both sides” are intentionally being riled up and driven to violent and dangerous rhetoric by one side so yeah. I hate Trump and Repubs but it’s insane the vile shit you see people say. On both sides.
Now where the sides are completely different is that 999/100 on the lefter side aren’t going to go commit violent hateful acts. On the other side it’s a lot worse ratio.
Should note that it’s just social media. In real life it’s just conservatives being insane vs sensible people
Can you show an example of the vile shit the non-conservative group is saying?
You mean aside from deepthroated support for genocide, right?
Wait who is supportive of genocide that isn't a conservative??
Start with this shower.
Those are conservatives, they're just lying about it. The act of supporting genocide immediately places you in that group.
Generally comments on Facebook. I was seeing vitriolic death shit around the Charlie Kirk stuff but extended. Everyone in the comments telling each other to die and threatening. It was gross. Driven by bots it gets everyone worked up. Since the ICE “crackdown” though it seems to be just racists vs sensible people, and I’m glad for that.
I did see a lot of people who were glad or even gleeful he wasn't spouting his vitriol and died in a way he explicitly approved of, but I'm not on facebook so I didn't see people making threats at each other. That being said, I know that people both to the right and left of Kirk hated him, so it's very possible all the hate being spewed was from the right. Seeing as how since the ICE surge isn't getting the same level of vitriol, I think it's safe to say that most of those weren't people that weren't "left" in any sense of the imagination, or just bots.