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I wonder if a lot of the money issues could be fixed by the union implementing a better distribution of income. Seems like inequality in Hollywood is even worse than other industries.

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That’s what the union is seeking.

Shouldn’t they start with the actors in their union then if that’s what they really care about? Some of the people protesting make crazy amounts of money themselves, if they want to show equality matters to them, should they start by redistributing the big actors’ income?

Exactly what I was getting at. Many of the people struggle and make very little. Then you have some A listers making obscene money.

Some of them are at least giving back a little: https://archive.ph/CMpee

No, pitting members of the union against each other would be an absolutely stupid idea. The union is supposed to be working to benefit all of their members.

If you have 10% of the members essentially eating the lunch of the other 90%, then it seems there should be some attention on this. Perhaps a maximum pay multiplier between members on the same project. It'd be stupid not to address the unfairness. Who gives a shit if the studios toss another 10% to the workers if it mostly ends up at the top earners.

They wouldn't have to "seek" it if their output was actually worth what they are asking for. It would simply be the competitive rate. The actual problem is there are way way way too many members in the union, so there's simply not enough work for all of them. Is it any surprise they make so little?

> Seems like inequality in Hollywood is even worse than other industries

This is a gentle way of saying that there are far too many unnecessary people in Hollywood.

While I do agree that the desire to be in the industry is higher than it can support, there is still a real inequality problem when the top people make what, 10,000x-100,000x more than the others?

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