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Our path to better working conditions lies through organizing and striking, not through helping our bosses sue other giant mulitnational corporations for the right to bleed us out.

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

his wife is an executive at Disney

Wait. What? Holy shit, every good goddamn thing he's ever released regarding copyright and intellectual property needs a big bold disclaimer about that in front then.

Fucker's talking out both sides of his mouth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Taylor_%28businesswoman%29

In 2017, Disney acquired Makie Labs technology and personnel for an undisclosed figure.

In keeping with the strategic acquisition, Ms Taylor is now the Director, StudioLab at The Walt Disney Studios. In that role she is responsible for ensuring that Disney continues to invest in the intersection between online tech and content distribution.

I'm sorry, in non-executive speak, doesn't that heavily imply that she at least oversees some work on DRM? Any content distribution method Disney touches with a 40-foot pole is going to have DRM methodology.

Motherfucker.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

so should he have divorced her in 2017 to prove his ideological purity?

(waves to the local chapter of the leftist circular firing squad)

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

(if we were to question bonafides of leftist intellectuals[^1] just because they are supported by someone belonging to the moneyed class, or come from the moneyed class themselves, we'd need to start with certain mr. marx, comrades. and numerous others.)

[^1]: however you value doctorow's qualities as an intellectual.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

One of my fav Marx anecdotes is no matter how tough economically the family had it, they never dispensed with the maid. Tbf maid wages were prolly really low, and the maid probably made Mrs Marx' life easier, but I also don't think Marx ever thought of the maid's work as Labor.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 1 points 5 months ago

Marx (who to be fair was operating in a very different global economy) explicitly excluded servants and other service labor from the proletariat, because he had an extremely industrial (cough gendered) definition of “productive labour.” That being said, he was friends, intellectual collaborators, and possibly lovers with the housekeeper.

Disclaimer: I am no marx historian; my knowledge of marxist theory tends toward literary analysis. I may be simplifying to the point of wrong.

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