I made a comment a number of years back that crunched out the amount of swearing by author. If I remember correctly, it proved that Mike has a strong preference to bullshit over any and all other types of shit. I really think that this stat should become part of this yearly report.
Living in Canada, we have a long history of subsidizing Canadian Content (CanCon) to help promote our culture while being deluged with, lets face it, highly polished and quite brilliant American entertainment options. In the same manner, Quebec requires all bilingual signage to display the French twice as large as the English. Iceland requires all children to be given proper Icelandic names and so on. While easy to make fun of, over time, these things do have a positive cumulative effect.
Market forces are best at finding efficiencies, but when it comes to culture, promoting less efficient options often have valuable, though less tangible long term benefits.
The French video game will probably suck wind. All the kids will still want to play GTA and dress like a gangsta, but efforts such as this are still valid in their goal long term.
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I made a comment a number of years back that crunched out the amount of swearing by author. If I remember correctly, it proved that Mike has a strong preference to bullshit over any and all other types of shit. I really think that this stat should become part of this yearly report.
I'd have to disagree with Mike on this one
Living in Canada, we have a long history of subsidizing Canadian Content (CanCon) to help promote our culture while being deluged with, lets face it, highly polished and quite brilliant American entertainment options. In the same manner, Quebec requires all bilingual signage to display the French twice as large as the English. Iceland requires all children to be given proper Icelandic names and so on. While easy to make fun of, over time, these things do have a positive cumulative effect.
Market forces are best at finding efficiencies, but when it comes to culture, promoting less efficient options often have valuable, though less tangible long term benefits.
The French video game will probably suck wind. All the kids will still want to play GTA and dress like a gangsta, but efforts such as this are still valid in their goal long term.