How can they see this as being degrading to themselves and a waste of their time and energy when they clearly do not value themselves?

I would concur. You can record high quality encoded audio on your iPhone, audio design on your iPad with your other samples, and add the mixed soundscape into your film on iMac.

I literally know someone in the media industry who’s whole effortless workflow is what makes him a go-to guy for quick and flexible turnaround for audio mastery for films. He works exclusively on apple devices for this exact reason.

I’m not saying it’s impossible another way, but he really likes the ecosystem.

It’s like both sides forget that free market socialism exists too.

But the electorate will forget as the conservative media keeps jangling the keys of the week for them to get outraged about, the progressive governments get pulled in every direction trying to fix every problem at the same time or at least be seen to be fixing it and at the same time lampooned by said conservative media for repeating the same point calling it “tired” when they rightfully blame the previous government for the mess they’re trying to clean up. The electorate disengages as they get rage burn out until they’re forced to pay attention because the election has been called. By then all they remember is the headlines from the conservative media, they get elected. The bosses are happy because they managed to weather the centrist government by convincing them to be left alone and controlling the attention of the plebs. Now their school mates are back in power for another 10 years so their asset portfolio can be taxed less and grow larger whilst those in the wage economy get shafted.

Same old neoliberal story.

That is unless the bosses decide that they can’t control the outrage of the plebs so instead they focus it away from themselves and onto minority groups and court a fascist to get elected. Then either way they win: the fascist erodes democratic institutions and formally establishes the oligarchy or fascist gets booted out and they get to install a “moderate” government further right leaning than the last moderate and get the neoliberal cycle back on track.