/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>53857869
most of the population are dimwitted hylics in case you've forgotten.

>>53857890
It's always been that way, but only lately have companies insisted on stooping to their low IQ levels.

>>53857869
It's called capitalism.

>>53857897
In the past there was a focus on "uplifting" the lower castes, this is why BBC used to do sort of bait and switch programming where they would play documentaries and more intelligent content following sports or popular teledramas to reel the proles in.

Same goal with old PBS programming in the USA or CBC in Canada Where I distinctly remember them playing children shows and hockey then following it up with some indie documentary or arthouse cinema.

>>53857923
What happened? Did they realize having a dumb working class is actually useful?

>>53857869
spirit airlines? Think about their target demographic, I think the saddest part is their strategy probably works

>>53857978
the elites need someone to make the shit they buy, its that simple. a thinking population is an unhappy population

>>53857923
you sure it was to uplift the masses and it wasn't just the cheapest slot to run those programs the audience drops down to nothing after the sports broadcast finishes?

>>53857923
PBS is the good one, they still are, I grew up watching PBS because we were the family without cable then skipped to satellite but I was already old enough to be drawn to documentaries. They have a lot of good PBS funded YouTube channels

>>53857978
doesn't make money
profit-first programming came to dominate with the rise of cable TV so people were no longer subjected to the "cultural imperialism" of traditional more intellectually focused media. In British-Commonwealth nations this was part of the wider class system and Liberal-Imperial notions of uplifting lesser folk,

I'd also say that this sort of thing was far less common in the USA and there was always trash TV even before Cable due to the American media always being cancer, however consider that even the likes of Disney at this time worked to try to lead children and "normal" people towards more intellectual topics.

The "elite" are far more cynical today as well as not interested in uplifting anyone so much as manipulating them.

>>53858007
At least in the case of BBC/CBC it definitely wasn't the case, they would sacrifice some good TV slots for high brow content just to promote it.

I for one benefited from it a lot because as a kid I was often "baited" into the educational documentaries and grew to appreciate the topics as I got older.

>>53858010
the main difference in the USA is public media is not as powerful as it is in Commonwealth nations (or was in the past at least)

As a kid in Canada, there was nothing much else but CBC and Provincial public stations like CityTV to watch.
They even used to just play softcore porn on the public stations in Ontario after dark which was pretty based. I remember once as a kid staying up late to covertly watch some softcore JAV movie on public TV they were playing.

kind of based honestly since it was obviously targeted towards teens and young couples in order to get them to HAVE SEX and MAKE BABIES.

>>53858057
TV culture might be big here but I think you're right that tele culture is even bigger across the pond. I agree with a lot of your posts but I'll just say, our countries come from the same degenerate roots because we're all human and TV "programming" is called programming for a reason so of course they want us to multiply their workforce by making babies. It's still like that

>>53858005
>>53857923
>>53858057
>''The Elites''

>>53858057
>I remember once as a kid staying up late to covertly watch some softcore JAV movie on public TV they were playing.
Canada is truly the degenerate wonderland. Hard drugs and suicide recommended to children and beastiality legal. Soon murder too

>>53858119
In the past it was the Anglo-Norman aristocracy, but they’ve been supplanted by the Judeo-Norman sub family now

>>53858119
and I suppose you think the world just runs itself huh?

>>53858119
midwit faggot

>>53857869
>Your unsubscribe
ESL is the future. Cope muttoids

>>53858509
What way would you say it? "Please confirm you want to unsubscribe" is wordy. "Unsubscription" is too rare to be elegant.

>>53858581
a fucking verb conjugation is too rare to be elegant?
what clowns!
truly this is clown world

>>53858597
It's arguably not even a word.
https://www.dictionary.com/misspelling?term=unsubscription

>>53858023
Everything back in the 90s was more intellectual and most people behaved and talked better imo.

>>53858581
Please confirm ending your subscription. Or do what Amazon does

>>53858633
if i told you there was a certain obscure legal act called "to cafumnicate", what would you say a cafumnication lawyer did? to whom would you refer a man who said he was accused of cafumnication?

>>53858774
This. Clear and transparent.

This meme photo encapsulates the spirit of Spirit. Look at the napkin

>>53857869
Is it really many? This is a cringe cherry-picked example. I rarely see any in that tone and language with use of emotes. Either way, look at how the average person/zoomer is today and you have your answer.

>>53857869
Because the people that create that shit are dimwits.
Simple as.