Here’s a trailer for the next movie that Jesse Eisenberg–the actor who played Mark Zuckerberg in the Oscar-nominated film “The Social Network”–stars in.
It’s actually animated and about a Minnesota macaw who heads for Rio. In fact, it’s called “Rio.”
There is apparently no drunken coding into the night or stock cramdowns or lifting of really good ideas from the muscled elite.
Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.
— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work
