I almost wonder if that's actually a dude who was on the flight or someone taking advantage of an opportunity to get in the news.

Seems so unlikely.

I own a tiny indie studio in Chicagoland and my peers own the some of the huge studios in Chicagoland.

Cinespace is dead right now. It has ONE show active. The other studios are so dead that they're secretly hosting bar mitzvahs and pickleball tournaments for $1500 a day just to pay property taxes.

My studio is surprisingly busy but I'm cheap and cater to non-union folks with otherwise full time jobs.

This is a good time to remind everyone that when government fucks with markets 40 years ago, they make it hell on everyone for the next 200 years.

I can tell you this:

Apple TV has a popular show. It makes about four million on views versus ten million on production. Per episode.

For their best.

Thereâ(TM)s no money to promote it.

I used to be such a huge Google fan. My businesses spent tens of thousands a month on Google.

But now, I think I spend $19.99 a month on Google. Maybe. I need to cut that off.

I don't use gmail anymore. I haven't used google search in forever. I am using Chrome right now but need to replace it.

Who uses Google anymore? For anything?

Not anymore.

I have merchant accounts and I absolutely can offer cash discounts today.

The "current crisis" is manufactured and amplified externally. Nobody is doxxing Tesla owners with maps using Molotov cocktails as map cursors or burning lots full of vehicles in for service in some way that is a function of whether Musk is personally present on the factory floor vs doing something else he thinks is vital to our economic survival. All of it is ginned up hate based on the politics surrounding the pruning of vast left slush funds and debt-funded waste that has to go away. That's an entire industry with vested interests, and acting against it certainly brings out the coordinated hate, attacks on stock value, media smearing, and of course thousands of people who now say he's a nazi though they can't actually articulate why they think that.

No, him being "on the factory floor" or off it doesn't precipitate some "current crisis," except in the sense that entrenched interests currently having their oxen gored by drying up things like the NGO money laundering industry are doing their best to try to wreck the company to make a point.

So the people who made it should have been earning minimum wage, is that your point? Spread that dollar amount across five and half yeads and even modest team of people and their overhead, and they're making middle five figures after taxes. Is that a lot, to you?

It took five and a half years to make it. So, in perhaps over-simplified terms, that's ~$670k year working on it. Let's say you had six people working on the project, and had NO overhead at all beyond their personal income while making it. That's roughly $100k per person before they paid taxes, which is either pretty good or not very good at all, depending on where you live and how. But one supposes they also had some overhead. This wasn't done on their kids' laptops at night. There was music to compose, audio to record and design, and a lot more.

So, yeah. "Just" 3.7M is a fair characterization.

Because it was one.

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Higher interest rates would be better for the economy long term as folks save instead of borrow.

High interest rates encourage people to save, and savings creates more secure jobs.

Low interest rates cause malinvestments and create false jobs.

Read Mises, Rothbard about the business cycle. Itâ(TM)s all because of low rates and bad investments.

High interest rates = low inflation, jackass.

High interest rates = higher savings rates = eventually you fix the business cycle that inflation and low interest rates causes.

Read some Mises and Rothbard.

I have no empathy for people who put all their eggs into one basket.

6 months emergency savings in a local bank. Rolling 12 month CD ladder. 401K or IRA in a three fund portfolio. By age 25 anyone making mid-high 5 figures can have a year of income saved, but instead they want tattoos and nice cars and big apartments and every concert memory.

No empathy for slaughtering yourself.

50s here, very high income earner. Never stable income but when it comes, it is big.

I also always saved 10 to 20 percent of my income since my teen years so a firing has no real negative outcome.

My peers and colleagues save poorly to comical effect. When you make six figures you can save five figures and the growth in savings is huge over ten years and twenty years.

I have no tears for my peers and colleagues who refuse to save. Refuse.