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

  • keef@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    “Um actually 🤓 ☝️”

    Have some sense to not post something like this when you are aware of the plight of the average worker in America even if you are in the minority as a tech worker

    (I’m also a tech worker)

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      1 year ago

      Honestly even tech workers are not paid enough relative to executives. Shit is crazy out here.

      And then lawyers be making like $1mil a year.

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        1 year ago

        Some people being over paid doesn’t make everyone else under paid.

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          1 year ago

          In the case where you work at the same company and get paid from the same revenue source, then that is exactly what it means.

          EDIT: Also consider that if you balanced pay better across an organization, less of it would get taxed.

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            1 year ago

            No it doesn’t. Not everyone deserves the same pay. You’re asking for communism basically.

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              1 year ago

              I didn’t say everyone deserves the same pay. I just don’t think an executive’s job is 100-400x harder than the average worker, yet many executives make that much more.

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                1 year ago

                I agree with you in principal, but some executives are probably worth 10000x the pay of some average workers because the average worker could literally never do their job as well.