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  • Sponsors pay more upfront. If creators are only using sponsors than their whole back catalogue is basically valueless. If it costs a creator 2-10 cents a month to host a video (based off S3 pricing), but they only made 1000$ on it upfront when the video was made, overtime the back catalogue becomes a pretty significant financial burden if it’s not being monetized

    Also it’s worth keeping in mind that many people are also using tools to autoskip sponsor spots, and the only leverage creators have for being paid by sponsors are viewership numbers.

    Patreon is irrelevant, that’s just like Nebula, floatplane etc, it’s essentially a subscription based alternative to YouTube.

    Discoverability is pointless if the people discovering you aren’t going to financial contribute. It’s the age old “why don’t you work for me for free, the exposure I provide will make it worth your time”, that hasn’t been true before and likely isn’t here. Creators aren’t looking to work for free (at least not the ones creating the high quality content we’re used to today)





  • From the posts I’ve seen so far, it feels like the community is stating that they only exist to criticize what they see as a misleading influencer, but to me it all comes off as bullying/harrassment.

    If they want to encourage change of some sort they could try and do that, but that’s not what the posts are encouraging, it feels like generic woman hate targeted at a single woman.






  • I’m always confused by these criticisms, do I misunderstand how they work?

    Reading this article, this 1.7million is an interest free loan, so taxpayers are only covering the lost potential of that money being used elsewhere, unless something happens whichs exempts them paying back.

    For the various EV related plants, the majority of the subsidies are tax rebates. Which means the company needs to setup and actively operating in Canada such that they are making enough revenue in Canada that their paying enough taxes to be able to untalize any rebate. As Canadian taxpayers the tax revenue were missing is purely net-new revenue that wouldn’t exist if the company didn’t setup here. It’s not like we’re writing a blank check, we’re just saying that if they setup here and start making money, they can pay us less money for the first while.

    Neither of those feel like obvious bad deals for Canadians. Am I missing something?


  • Ok I’ll bite. How does Canadian policy cause global inflation?

    The only angle that I can think of is that we’ve had a larger impact on carbon production than most other countries, and at least when it comes to global food inflation, climate change is having a noticable impact. So one might be able to argue that our role in climate change is causing food inflation. But I doubt anyone has actually done any peer reviewed studies on that so it’s likely just assumptions at best.







  • Well of course not. These game studios were selling games at 60-80$ each. Microsoft bought them, then started providing the all the games for a flat fee of 15$ per month.

    I assumed their strategy was to lose money in the medium term while they worked on getting people used to playing games on subscription. Where they make their money back is when they stop outright selling games at full price and make them only available on subscription, and then they slowly start increasing that monthly subscription cost.

    In order for that to work they need a large library and like 5-10 years.



  • joshhsoj1902@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.caCanadas Monopoly Problem
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    It started good, but then started to fall into typical conservative taking points.

    He correctly identified that the problem started when Canada sold off crown corporations, but then attributed the problem to over regulation of these newly private cooperation.

    Somehow he also called CBC a monopoly in there, which is a wild jump.

    My main take away from this video is the best solution is to deregulate (the other points were “increase competition”, but at this point that’s like politians saying they will create more nurses or doctors, unless you also state a plan I assume you’re just blowing smoke). His argument for how deregulating airlines or banking or ISPs would make things better for us didn’t really exist.

    Regulations might make it hard to start a new bank, so I’ll give him that. But I have a hard time seeing how regulations is what’s preventing new ISPs or grocery stores from cropping up.

    Overall in my opinion it’s a captivating video that lacks any substance, which is typical for politicans, but also disappointing because you don’t often get to hear them talk about something for over 10 minutes where they actually do have time to explain a plan properly.