This puts creative workers in the same boat as all other employees who do work once and don’t continue to get paid for it afterward.

And for anyone who would take this as an argument in favor of the wealthy exploiting people, no, it’s not. It’s just pointing out that it’s more typical for humans to be exploited, and the fact that there used to be legal protections to protect people who did creative work but there haven’t been protections to protect others is very interesting.

What international alternatives exist for YouTube? And I understand RedNote as an alternative for TikTok, but YouTube fills a little bit of a different niche.

Parrots can mimic humans too, but they don’t understand what we’re saying the way we do.

It’s interesting how humanity thinks that humans are smarter than animals, but that the benchmark it uses for animals’ intelligence is how well they do an imitation of an animal with a different type of brain.

As if humanity succeeds in imitating other animals and communicating in their languages or about the subjects that they find important.

The United States would be better with a lot more toasters.

Groceries.

The debt is for groceries.

Super wealthy people portray it like you just did, but what you said isn’t accurate.

People are putting basic necessities on credit cards now.