Well, while I don't know the details of Kirby's personal finances, I don't think he died in debt or anything ( as far as I know). Don't forget that after he left Marvel a second time in the 80's, he went to Hollywood to do designs, etc. The impression I had was that he made some decent money there for at least a few years. Plus he also did advertising/commercial art.
Having said that, comics history is littered with folks that didn't get a second break after leaving comics. For instance most recently, Dave Cockrum...he died from serious health issues a few years ago. If Marvel paid him for co-creating the X-Men he could have used those royalties from the cartoons and movies and still be with us.
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I'm not sure what the poster is trying to say, but I can kind of see where they're coming from. While I think Social Media has made it far easier for malleable people to be manipulated, I don't think it makes it easier to manipulate people who would not have been through other means. If that makes sense. Social Media is not some tool that makes it easier to get at smart people, but it is a larger megaphone to reach more people who already would be manipulated.
However, I think as a whole the internet has made a lot of people more educated than they would have been without it. I think there are people out there who are less superstitious due to access to information. I don't know, maybe I'm an optimist.
Yeah, social media made it so easy to manipulate people authoritarian states like China and Russia had to restrict it /sarcasm.
Social media is the reason citizen journalists could help movements like BLM or even the Hong Kong protest. There are so many cases of power abuse that could've been just ended with victim-blaming if it weren't for social media.
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The Internet has given all of us a cheap and easy way to obtain all forms of ideas and viewpoints instantly. The best thing, IMO, is that I can read all these different sources and then make up my mind as to what is factual and correct.
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The great thing about Social media is everyone gets a voice. The bad thing is everyone gets a voice.
But with all of the social justice movements, videos posted to social media of things that would have been ignored otherwise. i think the benefits out weight the bad. That is until Twitter becomes self away and tries to kill Sarah Conner.
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Both things are true. Social media can be problematic to those in power and it can also easily manipulate people into believing things they might be predisposed to believe anyway.
For instance, if you're sad your Presidential candidate loses it's a lot more comforting to believe that election was stolen. If someone packages facts (or "facts") and arguments in a way that supports that viewpoint it can (and has) easily gone viral.
The old saying (probably misquoting, and not going to bother properly attributing), "a lie can travel halfway across the world while the truth is still getting its shoes on" is true. People are more prone to spreading comforting information than inconvenient truths.
Social media is a tool that can be used to educate or lie.
I have to admit the plot of the Kill Bill movies didn’t really do it for me. The actual movies had some nice scenes, but the plot wasn’t that compelling. It would have been exactly the same, or it might have been even better, if “The Bride” had some sort of mob connections and somebody was trying to take her out as a revenge killing.
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