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I'm all for them wielding it.
I'm pro labor, and I see this as no different. Companies, corporations, hell, even mom & pop joints all wield a significant amount of power over the work, income, and, to varying degrees, the lives of workers, and in this case, artists.
So when workers- which is exactly what I'd classify an artist- build to a level of power that allows them to make power moves to the degree that the mighty corporations yield to it, that's a net positive.
Because that corporation will still run roughshod over 90% of the proletariat, while still dictating terms to the 9% who have enough cache to have options, but not enough to snap their fingers and get CEO's jumping to their slightest whim.
So when that 1% hits god tier? Exercise that shit.
Particularly when it's a Black man or woman, for whom every card in the deck is stacked from birth?
When things don't play to the artists favor, that's the breaks, until/unless changes are made to existing models. Artists have to eat plate after plate of disappointment, crow, sour grapes, or outright shit on the way up. Everyone isn't built to grind that out, fair, unfair, or indifferent.
This is a situation where Netflix is in the Dave business, while also trying to profit off of a portfolio of Dave's most significant work for which Dave receives nothing. So Dave's in a position to say, yo, if you fuck with me, you fuck with ME, but you're not going to get paid off my sweat when I don't see a dime of it.
That's not just some random rich guy flex in a vacuum.
He's not walking around crushing buildings with abandon.
You broke it down in very generic terms, as a rich guy vs a rich company over old content licensed to another rich company. It's easy to look at those generic terms and say, who gives a fuck about any of these people?
But this wasn't generic players under generic terms in isolation. A Black standup comic built his career to a point where he was able to leverage his value to the corporate giant, to prevent them from eating from a pot that doesn't feed him or his family.
What's the actual problem with that? Where's the negative?
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