That, in fact, was her only other choice, which is sort of the fundamental problem.
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Yeah, that’s a huge problem, isn’t it.
The hypothetical was a demonstration of how bargaining power works more than a statement of what actually happened.
Did I miss the part where you became my shrink? Get the fuck out of here with that shit.
People have the agency and free will to enter into a cell phone contract that doesn’t substantially differ from one carrier to the next with no opportunity to renegotiate, but I think most would agree that sort of agency is pretty impoverished. Just because you enter into a contract doesn’t mean you did so with any…
I’m genuinely curious how you got that this was about the nudity and not the compensation of the nude model.
Maybe so. It’s mostly interesting as a window into his character.
No, but it betrays certain self-serving, cutthroat ideas about how contracts actually work (mostly to browbeat and exploit the party with less bargaining power).
Depends on who’s saying it.
My line is exploiting any kind of worker, sorry if that wasn’t clear.
Is this irony?
That’s all well and good, but he didn’t even hem and haw about how movies were being made for the love of it on a shoestring budget. He went straight to “Sorry, you signed a contract,” which, come on.
Yes, most jobs definitely count, which is why an increasing number of people have grown disenchanted with capitalism writ large. It also demonstrates how Franco views power, which is to say that he pretends that there was some kind of parity between himself, Famous Actor and Director, and a nude model. He had an…
Yeah, but “you signed a contract, so it’s not exploitation” is libertarian shit-headedness at its peak.
Better hope she has impeccable sense in picking her advisors and they’re angels with perfect judgment.
Hard to imagine she would be for some of those things since putting them into effect would likely mean greatly diminishing her unfathomable riches.
He killed Walt Whitman and absorbed his life energy by obtaining his beard.
Strikes me that this is a move to preserve Sessions’ credibility as a drug warrior and not much else. If anything changes because the Cole memo was rescinded, it would be pretty surprising.
Let’s applaud Comedy Central for figuring out a way to make something they were probably going to do anyway look like taking a stand.