Some things don't pay dividends
Some things don't pay dividends
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In this example, the salesman (Netflix) is literally getting paid over and over for this content
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Writers aren't car salesmen. Writers create the foundation of the show. They're more similar to the engineers who design cars.
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.. who also don't get paid based on how long or how much the car is driven.
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They also don't get paid $3,000 to design cars
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What a stupid sentiment. Writers have been paid residuals for their work since the advent of television when reruns became possible.
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Whole lotta bootlickers on this thread
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I feel like there's some argument with intellectual property vs physical product or service vs physical product.
It's a matter of ownership on who gets paid.
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The salesman took no part in making the car. He is literally just the middle man. That guy is an idiot.
But contracts equal morality! Ayn Rand gave the Holy Writ on this, I believe it, that settles it!
Is the point still valid if you replace salesman with whoever worked on manufacturing the car?
The metaphor would at least make sense. The point he is trying, and failing, to make is stupid. Workers deserve a fair share of the profits.
The writers were paid when they wrote the show. They don’t own the rights to it. That guy made a good point.
The idea that writers aren’t entitled to a cut of the profit made off their work is stupid, not sorry. Companies literally wouldn’t have a product people want to buy without it.
That type of thinking is one of the major problem in our country right now. The idea that a company can pay their employees the lowest wage they can get away with and then rake in millions off of their work without sharing any of the profits is what is leading to the end of the middle class. It’s ignorant as fuck.
$3,000 isn’t a lot of money for a group of people, the average full-time worker earns $1,085 a week. The writers created a story that a lot of people liked and that made a lot of money, so they deserve to be paid more. That guy made a bad point.