The 1 cent paycheque: here’s the awful truth about being an actor in the ‘golden’ age of streaming (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] Metaright@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

I hope the strikers can hold out. I hate corporations.

[+] knobbysideup@lemm.ee -12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I honestly hope big celebrities lose their wealth. It won't happen, but it'd be nice to knock these smug fuckers down a bit.

[-] Valdair@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At least the actors and writers do or make something for their money. Even if they’re highly paid. The thing that is out of whack is executive pay - and how they make several orders of magnitude more than they should even when they make terrible decisions that cost other people their jobs, and even then when they get removed from those jobs they get lavish severance packages. Being mad a a handful of ultra wealthy artists is misdirected.

[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, alternative is those high in corporate just take it all. And while people may be jealous of top actor and athlete salaries the industry is also very profitable and is closer to the idea of revenue sharing model than a lot of other jobs. Unfortunately not for everyone, but if an industry is full of wealth then even people who aren't the CEOs should be getting paid lavishly for the revenue they generate.

And getting mad at them seems exactly what corporate would want where labor is fighting against labor as opposed to those at the top who are taking even more, so it's not like there isn't plenty to go around.

[-] comedy@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you think the actors are smug rich fucks, think about the anonymous rich execs who are, in most cases, richer (and probably more smug)

[-] knobbysideup@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I'm fine with them all burning

[-] comedy@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough!

[-] ConfirmingMoose@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago

Julito McCullum, who played Namond Brice on The Wire, has put out a video of him receiving $10.80 for DVD sales of the show.

[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 9 points 1 year ago

Back when Home Videotape was introduced, it was so expensive to manufacture the tapes that studios argued they could only pay residuals on 20% of the price they charged wholesalers for. Then it got cheaper to make the tapes. Then it got even cheaper, to make DVDs and Blurays. Then it got essentially free, to distribute on your own streaming service. All the while, residuals are still only paid as a proportion of that 20%.

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