• Wooly@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Not at all what I said/meant. We just wouldn’t have anything non-essential to spend our new found money on if wages = 100% of the revenue.

      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 just don’t understand how your 100% communist society would work, who would have enough money to start businesses if they was no extra money? The problem with society right now is that there’s TOO much extra money, not extra money existing at all.

      • What I want is the workers (colectivly) to own the means of production, and then to get the entirety of the value of their labor. My issue is not with “extra money” as you put it, but that the capitalists have stolen the money from the backs of the workers. I also would not call any money extra money so long as even a single person is starving, or does not have clean water, or is without a home, or cannot get basic medical care, or any pther basic need. I think these are a little more important than movies

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          I haven’t watched it yet, but Solaris is widely regarded as a great movie.

          It is one of my absolute favorite films. It is an extremely slow burn and very long, but thoroughly enjoyable. It touches on a lot of realy important themes and does so thoughtfully. I highly suggest everyone watch it if they have the chance.

          One of the absolute best films ever made, and indeed in my top 3 I’ve ever seen, is also a Soviet film produced in 1985 by Mosfilm (who produced Solaris), called Come and See.

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            1 year ago

            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.