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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on July 17, 2023, 06:49:04 AM
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Star Member spooky3 (32,298 posts)
Thread of support for the unions/guilds representing writers and actors
These creative people deserve fair compensation for their work that makes millions for their companies. Most of the members make less than $30000 per year.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218095317
People earn things. You don't deserve shit.
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These creative people deserve fair compensation for their work that makes millions for their companies.
Questionable premise.
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My youngest son writes/produces his own podcast. I've encouraged him to think about screen writing. (He holds a doctorate from Yale in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism.
That should advance him to head barista at the local Starbucks :lmao: :lmao:
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That should advance him to head barista at the local Starbucks :lmao: :lmao:
Right on cue:
kabi knit (30 posts)
1. Off-Topic (But-Just-A-Bit)
My daughter (for example) was a hollywood A-lister for a 'winkling' in time. She made decent money for a few seconds (it seems) - and then held her pager near for-a-year, awaiting that call that never came (again).
She still has that same pager but no longer keeps it charged, as she works her way up from barista to front-end manager at a local coffee shop.
I love you very much, my daughter!
What is an "A-lister for a 'winkling' in time"? Does that mean she wrote a few lines that actually made it into a script? And she wasn't much of an A-Lister if she immediately got kicked to the curb after her little flash in the pan. And the fact that she was still using a pager meant this flash happened decades ago. So after 30 or 40 years she's reaching out for that golden ring, also know as a Starbuck's name tag that says "manager".
My youngest son writes/produces his own podcast. I've encouraged him to think about screen writing. (He holds a doctorate from Yale in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism.) It's not improbable to think he could at some point in the future write for the business.
I wonder what a doctorate from Yale in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism costs. No doubt that many of his podcasts are lamenting the fact that he can't pay off his student loans and complaining that taxpayers aren't stepping up to pay for his useless degree.
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F*ck unions. A once noble idea to protect employees has devolved into irrelevancy. Last time I checked, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the less than 7% of the U.S. population belongs to a union. And a vast majority of them are government employees.
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AI will be writing the scripts soon, even coming up with the premise for the shows. Then computer generated actors will play the parts. It’ll look as real as life. These Hollywood types better get used to being persona non grata.
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Star Member spooky3 (32,298 posts)
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They’ve had it to good for to long. It’s time for them to join the middle class and get acquainted with real life. :thatsright:
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They're just a bunch of drama queens.
(pun intended :naughty:)
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They're just a bunch of drama queens.
(pun intended :naughty:)
:rimshot: & :hi5:
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F*ck unions. A once noble idea to protect employees has devolved into irrelevancy. Last time I checked, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the less than 7% of the U.S. population belongs to a union. And a vast majority of them are government employees.
I have noticed that whenever someone praises unions, it's for stuff they did decades ago.
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I have noticed that whenever someone praises unions, it's for stuff they did decades ago.
Most of the stuff that unions fought, bled and even died for are now mandated by Federal law.
Overtime, sick leave, workplace safety etc.
They're limited to arguing over stupid stuff now.
I do think the writers deserve to get paid more; in addition, Hollywood's accounting practices need to be exposed for the fraud they are.
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7. That series made my daughter the envy of all her cousins when she married a guy from Scotland
Seriously?
What a loser would post something like that :thatsright: :mental: :loser: :loser: :loser:
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I am fully supporting the writers and actor unions! Stay on strike until you crush Hollywood film production.
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I am fully supporting the writers and actor unions! Stay on strike until you crush Hollywood film production.
As Kissinger said about the Iran/Iraq war, "It's a pity that both sides can't lose."
In this case that is possible and would be an ideal outcome.