We literally have people that are profiting from content that they did not create, while the original creators get nothing

revampeduser@kbin.social · 2 years ago

We literally have people that are profiting from content that they did not create, while the original creators get nothing

Muela@kbin.social · 2 years ago

Funnily enough, that’s also the situation with scientific journals. Scientists pay for their investigations and on top of that have to pay to the journal (if they are lucky enough to have their work accepted)

Bipta@kbin.social · 2 years ago

It’s the situation with our entire societal model.

birlocke_@kbin.social · 2 years ago

DarkViperAU made a pretty decent series about a particular version of what you describe: reacters

MrFahrenheit@kbin.social · 2 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg summarised this phenomenon really well:

They trust me…dumb fucks

Source: https://www.gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-users-dumb-fucks