They’re literally executing billionaires.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/19/unsafe-at-the-top-chinas-anti-graft-drive-targets-billionaires-and-bankers

How do you figure? China has been putting out some of the best big budget stuff in the world this past decade (games & movies), and AI is lowering the barrier to entry for special effects for low budget stuff.

Use borg/borgmatic for your backups. Use rsync to send your differentials to your secondary & offsite backup storage.

People put shows and movies on YouTube already. You’re just not getting corporate backed media on there.

I’m not sure what role you believe capitalists have in creating media, but it’s clearly disproportionate.

You must be joking. The people who make any money producing online content are a very, very small minority.

And if people didn’t have to work 60 hour weeks to barely make enough to survive, we’d get a lot more creative content. All that would change is there wouldn’t be some talentless suit exploiting it.

We can do this, once we transition to socialism, and cut out the corporations. Run nodes on the community-owned fiber for free access to the citizens.

The same people who already make the media. Just cut out the corporate middle-men & shareholders, who soak up all the profit and contribute nothing to the content.

A tax on corporate use of AI to fund an artist stipend, to provide a living wage for artists.