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She's an artist, not some poor wage slave. The fact she gets paid a living wage at all for doodling in a notebook is thanks to the miracle of consumer capitalism.

Van Gogh couldn't trade his paintings for stale bread.

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"doodling in a notebook". Are you aware of how big of a thing bluey is?

Yes, and are you aware the role that the massive distribution and marketing machine played in making it that big?

The content is never less valuable than the marketing. Marketing and distribution is essentially a gatekeeper that maximizes profit, people would watch bluey without it but capturing the revenues would be more difficult.

Spoken like someone who has never marketed anything.

No, the marketing is everything. The product is just a floor... it just has to be "good enough".

See: pop music.

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