And those $60 bucks just for luxury with all essential stuff like housing, electricity, internet, heating and food already guaranteed by the community.
Literally every fully communist society has been a shit hole throughout history.
You forgot to pull the source from your ass along with that claim. Jesus mate, if you're gonna make bold uninformed statements like that you can just go do it on Reddit where we'd get banned for correcting you. Tell me what a shithole Cuba is when you can't get treatment for diabetes in the USA, or can't pay for university in Europe because you're a foreigner. Or how the USSR was so terrible when they were recognised as such pioneers in film that the USA had to ban their films. Or China eradicating poverty and homelessness. What did those countries not have that your Norseboys have, considering the clear interference of capitalist nations in both of them?
Also what an strange obsession to treat the survival of people as somehow inferior to your entertainment. Are you really willing to trade away the survival of poor people, including all the migrants and asylum seekers not covered in norseland, as well as the wellbeing of the workers to produce things you like both there and abroad, just so you can watch yet another 300k budget Marvel movie? Even if you were correct that communist countries only focus on survival (you're not), how would that be worse than having tens of thousands of homeless people just because the renters don't find it profitable.
Read a book before spouting nonsense and calling countries "shit holes". Have you no consideration for your fellow human?
If they're from the USA they've been taught since young that slavery and apartheid were abolished by asking the racists nicely to stop, so it tracks. Amerika is so diverse and tolerant that torturer and tortured can live side by side in peace.
it's on my ever-growing movie backburner and I'll possibly watch it this month. I'm not much of a movie guy but everything I've seen from the USSR and even the DDR so far has at least been an interesting experience. The same can't be said for much from AMPTP studios.
That’s utter nonsense: the highest grossing movies are bullshit propaganda Marvel movies that have no lasting value;
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.
Your claim was that there was no entertainment. I showed you a page that shows around 10-20 national films per year in the 20th century. That's a lot of film. Now you're deflecting to say that the films are bad because their budget is low. First you're gonna have to show that expensive movies are automatically good given how shit every Marvel movie since Iron Man 1 has been, specially compared with the lower budget stuff like Jessica Jones. Then you're gonna have to show movies from the time of War and Piece in the USA that are actually so "superior" on quality and and budget.
You seem to still be insisting on "investors" as though they are necessary. Once a movie has sold well it can finance the following movies by itself without being tied down to some disconnected rich AMPTP CEO who won't pay his writers and actors. "Most movies" actually have very small budgets, for obvious reasons and you'll hardly find movies that cost hundreds of millions in film festivals. The vast majority of art is actually cheaply produced even in capitalism, just look at deviantart, steam, itch, youtube.
Why do you want to be your society to still be ruled by investors? You do know that if they can have 10% of the economy they'll try to get 20%, right? How many 2008s and 2020s do you need to learn?
I’d still rather a mix of capitalism and socialism with good production value.
I also drink my water with oil. Soap blends it very well.
You couldn’t feasibly fund a movie(33k hours of work to earn $1mill which makes for an awful movie with today’s wages, it would either have to be a 1 person movie or way more startup capital to pay these massive wages), or open a restaurant, you’d be out of money long before you get enough traction, only thing that could be created is one person side project type things like.
I haven't watched it yet, but Solaris is widely regarded as a great movie. I don't see why you insist that some specific guy needs to get boatloads of money in order to finance a movie that is made solely by the people not getting those boatloads of money. If they make Solaris 1 and it generates a lot of money, why should somebody who is not the workers get all that money?
They could then easily make Solaris 2 earning the wages from the sales of Solaris 1 and if its great it just keeps going. If all people have comfortable lives they won't need some wealthy Prometheus to descend from Olympus with fiery cash. 33 dollars an hour amounts to some 1.3k dollars per week. At that rate people will be able to work less for their shitty day jobs and afford to work on their artistic endeavours. Don't you or any of your colleagues have any artistic interest that you can't pursue just due to lack of resources and time? Imagine working half the amount and being able to contribute to projects you actually care about with your leftover time and money.
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.
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.
Microsoft is a great example because they continuously do dumb shit that puts their workers at risk specifically because the owners are so stinking rich that they'll never face the consequences themselves. They just bought Activision-Blizzard for almost 4 billion dollars (money none of us will ever have) to get the IP of repetitive but profitable games such as CoD and Diablo. Meanwhile their workers get terrible working conditions are run by a serial abuser and in some cases have even been driven to suicide. From most developers I've seen they specifically produce games because they like making games, and yet the existence of millionaire (billionaire in this case) CEOs makes the lives of the developers we both like worse.
As you've said, you'd like $20 to be able to go to the movies and restaurants. But before that both you and the workers of those need to pay the rent, and none of the billionaire profit is going to the people actually making the games you like. That is why making the profit be zero is important, so all resources can be put into both your life as a worker and those of the workers who make shit you like, and not to buy some submarine for Bobby Kotick (unless... 🥺 ). Similarly Bob Iger's riches do nothing to help Disney make Avengers 32: Never-Ending War. Microsoft doesn't do shit, the workers do, and to make Microsoft's execs get more actively detracts from what those workers get.
G*mers, man...
If the entire country donates to him, maybe they can get 10$ an hour as treat.
let them make a few million, probably with hard caps over something like $10+ million profit
lmao lost lib came over here to defend millionaires. So long as there exists people personally tied to property profiting "a few million", they'll have very little to lose to overturn or bypass those "hard caps" to make a few billions. There's no "winning capitalism" if you can still influence politics to unlock more capitalism to win more. People should open businesses to serve their community, not to rule them.
Not addressing your claim but I think we should avoid using Statista as a direct source. They require you to pay to get access to their full reports and often obfuscate the original sources of their data. They are up there with numbeo on "worst shit recommended by google." I am not sure if I agree with the claim, but I'm not acquainted enough with that to actually discuss that part properly.