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Originally Posted by Charbax
Again, all people don't pay the same amount of taxes.
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The point is that people who *have no access* will be paying taxes to support people who *do* have access. The people who have no access, tend to be poor. The people who do have access, tend to be less poor, and include the very wealthy. Unless the deciding factor is "no internet = no art tax," there's nothing reasonable about gov't funded art that's decided by internet popularity.
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Just set them up with a new type of set-top-box that costs less than $100, and those people can be getting more than half of those 4 hours of daily videos from the Internet
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Less than $100, how?
Less than $100 in hardware to set up? Less than $100 ever--free internet?
Who's providing the internet, and who's keeping the porn away from the kiddies? Who's making sure the adults who want porn have access to it?
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cause they will quickly figure out that recommended and personalized Internet on-demand video is much better than random ad-supported crap on regular TV broadcast monopolies.
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You're awfully certain that your tastes in entertainment are everyone's. That what you like to watch is what everyone would prefer.
Has it occurred to you that many people prefer TV to internet because they
like what's on TV? Because they don't want to waste a dozen hours browsing through a hundred websites and three hundred blogs, trying to find the one with content they'll enjoy? That they want to be bombarded with cute entertaining ads that tell them what kind of products they can use to wash their clothes, outfit their kids for school, and where they can eat lunch?
For someone screeching about "diversity," you have a one-track message.
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How do you get to finance all these Internet videos, again this is going to be mostly the tax system.
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Again, people who are working three jobs while raising two children are paying taxes to support the habits of those who have four hours of leisure time every day.
Saying "oh, taxes can be variable" is meaningless--you haven't said how they'll vary, or who'll be deciding on the variations. You seem to assume that "the Government" is a noble entity that will do so fairly, without any ideas about what "fair" means in cold hard numbers.
You still haven't mentioned which government will be implementing this, and how the oversight committee will guarantee people's privacy while avoiding hacking into the database and internal corruption skewing the answers. Nor who'll be deciding what content standards are appropriate for this world-wide artist payment-by-popularity game... do you really think that the gov'ts of the world are going to start subsidizing porn? Or are you under the impression that porn is actually a small, marginal part of the online entertainment industry?
(Is there a statistician in the house who can throw numbers into the discussion?)