The sorry state of streaming residuals shows why SAG and the WGA are striking.

  • Whirlybird
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    1 year ago

    Exactly, 💯.

    Actors and writers seem to be some of the most entitled people in the world. Imagine if every profession demanded ongoing revenue share for life from every single piece of work they were paid to do.

    Every worker who worked at the factory that made your car? Royalties for life. A $20k car now costs $200k and has a mandatory subscription service because the company has to keep paying all the workers, past and present, for making that car.

    Highways and roads? There’s a few hundred or thousand employees that now require residuals for every single road they ever worked on. Every single road is now a toll road. Every drive to work or the shops costs you $100 so residuals can be paid.

    The internet? Every google search you do now costs you $1000 since every single engineer and QA and BA etc needs residuals for their work that they were already paid for to make google search.