Now that Kanye is a billionaire, will the culture press become more curious as to how that particular business operates?

100s of pieces are written a week about tech billionaires and their companies - how the business functions, who does what, employee leaks, talk of unions etc

if the rest of the world operated like the culture industry, Amazon would be called "Jeff Bezos" and we'd have a ton of articles with pictures of him manually packing boxes

I have critiques of big tech for days but the uncomfortable truth is that when a big tech company goes public, sometimes thousands of millionaires are created through employee stock options. Does the culture industry meet those very low standards?

its important for numerous reasons. One being that I'd argue this "self made" myth is leading a generation of young people into make stupid decisions about their lives and careers that also have negative societal consequences

another being that these cultural consultant production hives literally suck up all the nutrients in a creative economy like an invasive species. On top of this, records made for 1k are judged against records made by teams of hundreds studying records made for 1k

truth of the culture industry is that smaller operations R&D ideas cheaper than bigger operations, who audition those results to chose what to invest in. If a tech billionaire looked at that, they would establish an equity system that compensates relative to those risks at scale

even in the direly uncompetitive situation we are in with tech, facebook would acquire and buy out the young competitor researching new ideas. Culture industry is far less virtuous than even that pitiful situation.