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

  • johnlobo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    wow, so dumb trying to sound intelligent.

    “funnel wealth to few”. this is what happenning now.

    the people striking won’t get rich from what they are asking for. they are asking for liveable income. they are only asking for a tiny portion from the collective profit of work that have their name in it. and they not only asking for money, they asking to be treated like a human being at their workplace.

    architect are rich as fuck. plumber are very well paid.

    “Intellectual Property is a construct enabling monopolies and generating billions of dollars off the trivial reproduction of work done by others. All this perpetual money making bullshit is just piggybacking off of something that never should have been.”. and wtf are you rambling here?

    don’t talk shit when you never try working like them.

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      the people striking won’t get rich from what they are asking for. they are asking for a liveable income.

      But they absolutely would strike it rich because they’re asking for a “liveable income” from every single piece of work that they were paid to create.

      Say a writer was hired by Disney to write a movie, and paid $40k for doing so. They then want a “liveable income” worth of residuals every single year for the rest of the time that movie is available. Now they get hired to write another movie by disney. They’re paid $50k for this one. They now want **another “liveable income” worth of residuals from this movie. So now they’ve been paid $90k and also want 2x liveable incomes in perpetuity for the work that they were paid $90k to do.

      Do you see the problem? What’s a “liveable income”? $50k a year? So now this person that was paid $90k to do 2 jobs is now owed $100k per year in perpetuity. Why do they deserve that? Where is that money coming from?