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

  • vertigo3pc@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As someone who works in the film and TV industry, let me go ahead and say whatever you do in America, whatever industry: you’re undervalued, underpaid, and your wealthy executives are getting fat on your hard work while you starve.

  • MxM111@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Warning: unpopular opinion here.

    From the article:

    That means that despite the show being a resurgent hit, there were no big secondary payouts.

    So, I am an engineer/scientist. Products that I have developed/contributed to development are used by billions of people. Most likely you, the reader of this comment are using it right now, because some of the products I worked on are telecom products, that are widely used to transfer information.

    The amount of secondary payouts I receive is EXACTLY ZERO.

    My honest question is, why those writers should be any different? They should be paid when they make their products, according to the contract they signed. But why many think they entitled to something more?

    And no, I do not think that argument “but it is difficult work, it is not constant” works here. There are lots of difficult, non-constant, seasonal, whatever jobs there that pay even less.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      I worked on products that many Lemmy users are using to read and post. I don’t expect residuals because that’s not how my industry was built / ever worked.

      Writers are in an industry that previously paid them every time their work made money. That’s the difference.