As a consumer and not a creator of movies living in a capitalist economy, my only obligation is to get the best possible financial outcome for myself. It’s not my preogative to provide random people with jobs, especially not through shelling my hard-earned cash to an industry that’s run like it’s straight out of a corporate dystopia. If better alternatives exist, like streaming compounded by the death of the cinema in this case, I will pursue them and hope they prevail.

The idea of advocating for the presevation of jobs despite said jobs providing an essentially garbage service is utterly senseless. Some industries simply die out. It appears this industry is reaching its expiry date. Better to let it die and be replaced by something better than prop up its rotting corpse to everyone’s inconvenience. I don’t see you crying over the death of the coal stoaker as a profession, despite it employing literally millions of people in its own time.