Remember when they cancelled all the good TV shows back around 1970? That was a direct result of redistribution. The easy to tap market was the welfare culture with all the money to spend. The productive culture, now under the burden of high taxes, had no money to tap. Obviously you cancel the American culture, and produce a welfare culture — the television industry did exactly that.
Every time they increase redistribution, they kill America.
Are you referring to the so-called "Rural Purge?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge
Regards,
“Remember when they cancelled all the good TV shows back around 1970? “
That was certainly part of it. There was a writer’s strike, I think in the eighties. No scripts could be written, so we ended up with “unscripted” reality tv. Scripts became so expensive that nobody could produce a show like Carol Burnett or Barny Miller. This increased cost had the same effect as $15/hr wages at McDonalds. The supplier to the TV viewing market simply shriveled up.
Television has never recovered. It is slowly becoming overrun by small suppliers with their own YouTube channels. Eventually, all of Hollywood will go under. How many remakes of Superman and CHIPS can the market take?