• Godric@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I miss when actors used to be some random boxer a director met in a Cuban bar or the drunk tank, instead of the executive producer’s nibling or some fucking baronet.

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        3 days ago

        True lol, it’s never not been, it’s hardwired into humans, but it was nice when certain industries were new and there wasn’t so much buildup for the enthrenchment

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          2 days ago

          Yes I think when an industry is new is about the only time that existing power structures don’t dominate, albeit briefly. I saw this up close with the advent of the WWW. In the early days, coding HTML was like working magic, and there were no established players who had a lock on how to do it better than what any enterprising young person could teach themselves through tinkering.