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Originally Posted by GatorB
So that means they should get all this extra money because it currently doesn't pay them well enough to live off? Um that's called LIFE. In what other job in the REAL world do you get paid like this? in REAL jobs you paid ONCE for doing a job. As is they get paid for doing a "job" I eman $800 and you might do is stand there and no have any lines. Sign me up. then you get paid if that goes into syndication, then you get paid for it if it goes on DVD. Now they want money from online? Ok out of work "actor", I know you really could use some cash from that small 30 second part in a epsiode Night Court from 1986, but get over it already, acting just wasn't in the cards for you.
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Oh, one other thing. A great example of a real job that pays you like this would be an insurance agent. My agent bills me every month for my car and home owners insurance. The payments get auto-debited right from my checking account and he collects a fee. In the 5 years I have been with them I have actually spoken to them about 5 times and I would guess 3 of those times were this winter when the heavy snow collapsed my carport and totaled the car that was under it. So after signing me up he has done next to nothing, yet continues to collect a commission check for what they bill me each month.
The same can be said for many writers. If you write a book they give you an advance. If your royalties eventually earn you more than the advance you got you will start getting checks. Stephen King still gets checks for books he wrote 20 years ago. Should he not? He hasn't touched that book since turning it in 1982, but it still is selling and generating revenue for the book publisher, but since he is not actively working on it he shouldn't be allowed to profit from it?