Adventures in Greed (Megacorps vs Everyday people)

Infographic showing how Americans think wealth is distributed, how they think it should be distributed, versus how it's actually distributed.

Spoilers: The reality is much worse than people think.

I had a high school teach bring up the wealthy disparity between the 1% and the rest of us in the 90s.  That guy was a prophet.  Called out the American political duopoly between the parties and the corporate ownership of the Democrats.  He ended up having a melt-down a couple years after and opened up a liquor store, which is what I assume most high school history teachers with his level of political awareness did at that time.

a thread from tumblr blags:
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i will never be against piracy ever but i also need physical media to
remain. the average blockbuster carried about 3x as many films than that
that are streaming on Netflix or any other streaming service, physical
media along with piracy is more important than ever.

I thought this wasn’t true, because how could it be true? How could
one small store have more movies than an online database? So I googled it.

I am surprised and depressed to learn it’s 100% true, according to
google. A Blockbuster store was required to have a minimum of 7000 titles,
but most averaged about 10,000. Netflix has 4000 movies. (And 1800 tv
shows if you want to count those, but even included, it’s still less)

Now I’m even more depressed about the collapse of physical rental
stores.

BONUS: They weren't beholden to Who Owns What IP Right Now. They got
videos from everyone. You didn't have to pay separately for the rights
to rent from the Disney Shelves and the WB Shelves and bler bler bler,
and they only STOPPED having those movies when the tapes broke or someone
never returned 'em.

friendly reminder that your local library will have lots of physical
media and if they don't have what you're looking for you can most
likely  ask them to purchase it or order it from another library through
interlibrary loan

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