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Personally I don't actually want physical media anymore. I just want digital media to actually be something I own.

Fox used to be known for this. Launching a lot of new shows and then axing them if they weren't an immediate smash hit.

Isn't Pokemon like... The biggest IP ever? Way bigger than Star wars or marvel or pretty much anything else? Not sure they're actually hurting. At all.

Apparently PE was already getting out of the market? A how money works video said that they represented ~25% of recent home sales despite having ~7% of homes.

Encountering this attitude in the haremlit space was strange. This is literally a genre about erotica and unconventional relationships... So why are you being so puritan?

There are also competing digital market spaces. You can only buy through Sony on PlayStation.

Yep. Seems like the key is: find vaguely related thing that people dislike, then gaslight them that more surveillance will fix it (it doesn't fix it).

My wife's workplace tried to have them do dream journaling and then had them come back and report back to the group on what they dreamed about. This is a fortune 500 company that you've absolutely heard of before.

Laundry machines and dishwashers are still some of the highest manual labor required as far as home appliances go. Load, unload, fold, put away,, clean the lint trap, etc.

Compared to a robot vac that just does it's thing on a schedule while you occasionally empty it's dock and clean the filters, it's not nearly as 'automated'.

This is also mostly how modern geopolitics seems to work. Lots of little 'skirmishes' that aren't actual war alongside more traditional diplomacy. The ideal seems to be mostly peace with a touch of violence here and there to keep people on their toes.

I think light revolutions work. Stuff like what France does where they riot and start burning cars when the government tries to raise the retirement age. The kind of stuff that reminds the politicians that they could be dragged out into the streets by an angry mob, but that hasn't happened yet.

Actual revolutions where you do need to go that far, mostly fail as you said. Additionally, foreign meddling is common, so even if you can deal with everything else, outside actors are going to try to screw with you. And they'll typically succeed.

Without any sort of violence at all, you become a non-threat and we get what we currently have in America today. No one cares about the protests because they aren't going to do anything at all to the people they most need to affect.

Basically you need a sweet spot of minor levels of violence without fully going full revolution or being neutered into irrelevancy since they know you'll never fight back.

huge percentage of profit that theaters get for the first few weeks of a film's release.

This is backwards. Theaters actually get very little percentage early on in the release and only get more later. Most early profits go to the film studio/publisher. Or at least this was how it worked ore-Covid. Maybe it's different now.