Putting paywalls on culture puts culture out of reach to the lower classes.
I think poor kids growing up with parents living paycheck to paycheck should have equal opportunity to become a great filmmaker as trust fund kids.
That should be where we start this conversation, not hand wringing over making sure billion dollar media companies don't have their business models disrupted.
> I think poor kids growing up with parents living paycheck to paycheck should have equal opportunity to become a great filmmaker as trust fund kids.
I think that the bigger issue is that poor kids cannot consume the same media that richer kids in their school consume and this can turn them into outsiders automatically. Imagine the feeling to be the one kid in class that cannot watch the show that everyone else is talking about, because your parents are too poor to afford subscriptions.
I think poor kids growing up with parents living paycheck to paycheck should have equal opportunity to become a great filmmaker as trust fund kids.
That should be where we start this conversation, not hand wringing over making sure billion dollar media companies don't have their business models disrupted.