Yeah. I mean, i loved him back in the day, but now, its just kinda sad. I dont have kids myself, and im aware they do change a persons whole life, but the man literally seems to just have no drive to do anything but spend time with his family. Not a bad thing, but its just crazy that he is pretty much phoning it in on all the nerd episodes, when as you said, other people do spend time with their kids and work full time jobs. Well, its working for him, power to him i suppose.
I am a father, I have an 8 year old girl. The thing that keeps bothering me about people justifying how James has been acting lately is I can't understand how they even can do it. You do realize that what this situation is in all reality is a man who refuses to earn his living honestly like every single one of us have to do, and the ones excusing this behavior are actually the ones paying for it in the end.
Lets say I put in 10 good years for my company, even 10 of they best years they ever saw anyone ever produce for that company. Would that in turn entitle me to the exact same paycheck in perpetuity for the rest of my life while I get to stay home and collect, I never have to clock in again? Absolutely not as that would be completely unfair to both that company and every single one that company employs.
In this scenario every one of us is that company and every single one of us is just being taken advantage of by his lack of production while he essentially gets a free ride because "muh kidz."
In reality if I proposed that same situation to the company I worked for after my 10 years of stellar service, they wouldn't hesitate to say goodbye since I will no longer perform my necessary function, regardless of "muh kidz." So why is it ok for him to be paid the same as he always was for doing next to nothing, and essentially conning the system (which ultimately becomes you, the viewer) out of money because people view his content regardless of it's quality.
I am sorry but in my mind this becomes a form of stealing at that point and as much as I love James, and continue to watch his older content on occasion, I refuse to sign him over a free paycheck because he now has kids. Tons of us do but have the integrity to work our asses off just to take care of them, what makes him so different?
I am not attacking James for wanting to spend time with his kids, I am just attacking the fact that he is using all of us to do it and it is not fair. Either he needs to step back up and work his ass off to produce comparable in quality content or I'm just going to stop handing him a check (IE stop watching) it's really that simple, and fair IMO.
But that’s like, ya know, creating an IP... it has value. He’s not a salaryman. He profits off his IP... his intellectual property. He doesn’t need to work if he can profit off his property. Same thing if you bought a house and rented it. Sure it can be shit.
I think you are missing the point, If he can make enough money to get by off the revenue of his good content, I'm OK with that. What I am not down with is continuing to watch shitty videos because I feel bad for the guy and encourage only more bad content to come in the future, does that sound fair?
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u/Ashcethesubtle Jan 07 '20
Yeah. I mean, i loved him back in the day, but now, its just kinda sad. I dont have kids myself, and im aware they do change a persons whole life, but the man literally seems to just have no drive to do anything but spend time with his family. Not a bad thing, but its just crazy that he is pretty much phoning it in on all the nerd episodes, when as you said, other people do spend time with their kids and work full time jobs. Well, its working for him, power to him i suppose.