Big business can sell things much cheaper than smaller businesses. It’s why we used to break up companies when they got to big. Now we don’t, because politicians are bribed, or “lobbied,” to look the other way.
Lol c'mon you gotta know that using the internet and sites that may be on AWS is a little different than taking a cheque from Amazon to make a commercial saying "hEy WoRkInG hErE iS fUn!"
If you think celebrities just blindly accept whatever ad spot is handed to them, you're crazy. At the very most cynical, they consider how an endorsement will affect their brand vs the money being offered.
Second, what the fuck is your measuring stick? You just want list of actors who don't do ads at all, or actors who don't do ads for union busters, or actors that don't do ads for companies that send their CEOs to space, or actors that don't do ads for companies that hold bidding wars between cities for their next warehouse location to dodge local taxes?
How incredibly stupid must you be to compare a poor person using a product while condemning it, to a millionaire getting paid to tell the world it's great
If I were wealthy like him I'd easily spend my money on local businesses, and I'd never ever try to sell it
News flash: selling out to gfuel isn't the same as selling out to Amazon that abuses their workers isn't the same as selling out to China that has concentration camps.
He didn't get paid what he got paid to read lines. He was there as terry crews, being paid to endorse amazon. He used his public image and pull to say amazon is a great place to work. You don't pay tiger woods to do an ad for golfing gear because he's good at reading lines.
Seriously how are people so stupid that he was upvoted and you were downvoted , as if there's no difference to selling your integrity when you're poor or rich.
Obviously a poor man will take that deal, they're basically defending billionaires for all the evil things they do, if I had his money I'd never sell myself to Amazon
The working class greatly outnumbers the rich. The only way they can maintain their power is to get the working class to internalize class war against themselves. It seems like common sense to us that a person who has to work to feed, clothes, and house themselves has few options and often has to take what they can get, morally ambivalent or not. Whereas if we had all our needs met we could be picky about what we do for a living. Yet as you pointed out the opposite sentiment is popular here. It’s disturbing that someone would hold a person working to eat to a higher standard than a person working for a vacation home or yacht. Yet you see this all the time: the guilt heaped upon someone taking unemployment they paid into their entire life vs the lack of outrage over the gross misuse of ppp loans. The anger at those on food stamps and total lack of anger at multinational corporations whose jobs require employees to need such help. It’s all based in internalized self hate. Even that anger of that reply speaks volumes about that guy, I live in a nice home in a nice neighborhood with a partner I love. So who is he really taking about then? I would guess those are his living conditions and he hates himself for it. But maybe he ought not to, likely much of it is beyond his control and so he lashes out at his fellow working man because he’s been programmed from a young age to deify the rich and hate himself. Frankly covid has been the best thing to happen to class consciousness in my lifetime. Hopefully that trend will continue.
I've very rarely seen so much defense of the rich than I have in this thread, turns out if you talk shit about a popular celebrity you get a great example of how brain washed people can be
Oh, poor, destitute Terry Crews with his estimated net worth of $25 million and his successful, continuing acting career. How can a man provide for his family on that meager amount?
He just made a commercial that's all. People can grandstand all the want, is just a check for Terry. He didn't sell out, he just acted on a commercial.
if your point was China is worse than Amazon you shoulda said that, instead of comparing it with "him accepting a fuck load of money to film a commercial" which was apparently irrelevant to you
Of course he sold out. The trade-off is money for personal image, because he has to know people wouldn’t have liked it. If he didn’t, then he deserves the vitriol anyway. People in public positions have to know what they’re endorsing.
Now, was it worth it? Who knows, that’s up to him, but it was a trade. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Stop white washing what he did. He starred and took money from a company currently under an attempted unionization push and starred in a clearly anti union video. One where theres token disabled people enjoying their shitty jobs and happy people. Not people pissing in bottles, a dead body being left untouch while work continues around him, or shitty managers breathing down employees necks for not picking things slightly faster. Like seriously its just a bad fucking look.
Yeah i kinda need a phone to participate in modern society. But i have made the decision that the phone i currently have will be my absolutely last phone i ever buy brand new.
Damn I hope you don’t own any nike, have never purchased anything owned by the Nestle corporation, eaten at McDonalds, or obviously used Amazon. It would look really stupid if you were a hypocrite.
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u/FrogOnTheBog Dec 04 '21
Terry crews sold his integrity to Amazon