Which operates in an industry entirely different from labor. You’re delusional if you think acting and manual labor are in the same bucket. Besides, every union differs from the next but they’re generally all cesspools of political wrangling and promotion based on seniority. Everyone I’ve known that belongs to a union is just cashing a check and waiting to retire with a pension, 0 ambition.
Exceptions do not make a rule, i am not sure why people think pointing to SAG and a few A List celebs is proof of anything other than the fact we as a society over value entertainment
And the income of the average actor in Los Angeles is…?