2y ago

The 1 cent paycheque: here’s the awful truth about being an actor in the ‘golden’ age of streaming

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