“This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no consent and no compensation. So if you think that’s a groundbreaking proposal, I suggest you think again.”
No, that’s where the irony comes from. You think poverty in America is comparable to poverty in Africa.
It does matter what American’s ‘should have.’ You’re trying to argue they ‘should have’ more money. I’m arguing they should have to pay less.
Here you go saying ‘x doesn’t have a right to complain.’ I told you before, everyone has a right to complain about anything. It’s called freedom of speech and I support it.
If you can’t afford any of that stuff in the US, there are plenty of social programs to help you out that you will not get in Africa. The fact you’re trying to conflate the two just speaks to your position of privilege. You really don’t know how bad things are outside of the US.
If you can’t afford food in the US, we have EBT. If you can’t afford housing, we have government assisted housing that can literally cover your expensive apartment rent.
If you can’t afford that stuff in Africa or most of the world, you die of starvation and suffer from exposure. Not to mention that being in a nation of excess also results in a higher quality of life all around you, such as from the infrastructure you benefit from. You can wash your face in a McDonald’s, that’s better than the slumwater of Burundi.
Such as? Which ones do all people in poverty qualify for? If that’s true, why do people live in shacks without electricity or running water? Do they choose to live that way for the fun of it? Is this one of those “they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps” thing?
And if people don’t have the right to complain, I guess the actors have the right to do what they’re doing and you have no point.
I edited my previous post to highlight the benefits of social programs in the US.
I never said the actors don’t have a right to do what they’re doing. My point was, from the beginning, that they will get no sympathy from me for doing it. Why does that bother you so much?
And yes, believe it or not, some people do choose to live in shacks without any electricity or running water.
In fact, everyone I met living that lifestyle was doing it because of choice (or mental health, but it’s a different discussion to identify which.)