I need people to focus on the real issue here: the value of creative labor, aka jobs. This is not about whether or not it qualifies as "art", whether or not it looks bad, etc. All of that is a just a distraction when we live in a world where we need to work to in order to live.
I don't frankly care whether you believe it qualifies as "art" or if you actually think it "fits the narrative", that stuff is ultimately irrelevant when the livelihood of creative workers is dissolving before our very eyes. Corporations that employ us have a choice in this.
Efficiency and tech advancement could be prioritized if we had a societal structure that didn’t require people to work in order to obtain access to basic resources required to stay alive such as healthcare, housing, and food. We prioritize jobs bc we lack a social safety net.
In the early 20th century, futurists imagined that we’d be living in a utopian society by the year 2000–one in which we would all have much more free time to pursue our hobbies and simply relax while automation took care of labor. That could have been achievable w/ regulation—
Had we continued on the path that mid-century New Deal and Great Society policies started us on, but over the past 40+ years, those policies have been systematically destroyed one by one leaving us in an unprecedented era of wealth inequality that borders on techno-feudalism.
So no, I don’t think I care about prioritizing technological advancement over preserving the livelihoods of actual flesh and blood people in our current climate. Ask me once we’ve managed to completely reverse the effects of unchecked capitalism and our gerontocratic congress
Pandora’s box has been opened. Now it’s about fighting for regulation and guardrails to ensure corporations don’t run completely unchecked with no concern for collateral damage. It’s about setting ethical standards such as opt-in datasets that don’t scrape private personal data
Literally artists who worked on the show are sharing their utter disappointment and disgust with this on Twitter today. Many of them are my friends and colleagues. Yeah, what *about* the real people who worked on the actual show beyond the intro? What a disservice to them.