This is beyond stupid, I think.
On my CNBC teevee screen:
- WHAT ARE THEY FIGHTING FOR?
4,434 Hollywood guild writers worked full-time last year.
Average salary: $204,000
Many earned $1 million or more
Certainly $204,000 isn’t chump change (no idea how close it is to the median which is more informative), but it’s completely irrelevant to the question of whether the studios should be able to take their work and put it on the internet for free.
But more to the point, the majority of guild members don’t work full time.
[From Spot The Bouncing Bullshit]
So let’s apply the same metric to our politicians when next they take one of their raises, shall we? The issue is that an industry that continually claims to be losing money on every project somehow books millions in revenue and rips off the creators of their content as often as they can.