Because the people in this government are gleefully malevolent you naturally assume they are more evil than stupid but they're stupid first. They think everyone who came before, everyone who built the world they've benefited from, was dumb. People like Musk and Trump both have this idiot's disease
I'd rather be a good person than "make it" in a world like this one.
Your poverty is leveraged. They take advantage of the real desperation of people in this industry to settle for peanuts with no plan to compensate them better if a movie is a surprise hit like Obsession was. Just fucking gross.
It is and isn't crazy how stupid it all is.
So much of the hoarding of resources by American oligarchs is simply to keep those resources from the rest of us and encourage our compliance via our desperation.
I can't believe I submitted a story to a publication called Black Scat Books. But to be fair to me, their flier for their anthology looked pretty solid. Still, advise you to stay away. They arbitrarily decided that my inadvertently sending a simultaneous submission was an unpardonable sin.
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Say what you will about the logic of starting a war with Iran, but at least the Iranian government now knows they can bring the global economy to heel with one relatively small assertion of their regional control.
