Yes, in fact, they do. They make that much despite making *NO* contribution to what the studio produces.

When a single upper-level executive from nearly every studio gets paid more per year than the total cost of what the WGA is asking for to better support all of its thousands of wildly underpaid writers (yes, seriously), the people who are literally the foundation of everything these studios produce, and the WGA’s…

What the MAJORITY want

Can you imagine the outcry and stink Republicans would be raising if the roles were reversed? If Sotomayor had been given dozens of luxury vacations on Soros’s dime (Soros picked simply because Republicans use him as their wealthy boogeyman the most often)? If Soros had paid for her parent’s rent in a luxury home for…

This is also a variant of the prisoner’s dilemma, or of the ‘first mover’ problem, or even the ‘principal-agent’ problem. They all boil down to, in simplest terms, individuals putting what’s ‘best’ for themselves over what’s best for everyone.

They’re not anti-union. Nearly every major corporation and business in the US is part of a union — RIAA, MPAA, ESA, and so forth, all engage in collective bargaining for the benefits of the conglomerates, corporations, and businesses they represent, ie unions. Hell, that’s what lobbying firms are, 3rd-party union…

They’re not really even that expensive. That’s just capitalist & brand name markups. The actual electronics of a mid-range TV are pretty damn cheap. We’re talking ‘thrift store’ cheap, practically ‘give them away’ prices. So, yeah, it is *technically* possible to recoup the cost of bringing ‘free’ TVs to people who…

The first step is for the people to unionize, nationally. The next step is for unions to stand together in solidarity — an attack on any union must be treated as an attack on all unions. Following that, unions need to ensure that they have a voice in the education of the people, so that the people never forget the…

How about you pay the people actually doing ALL THE WORK better instead, just like the WGA is asking, instead of hogging all the profits yourself? How about that?

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First of all, Russia has been under economic, political, and military attack, directly and indirectly, by capitalists for almost a century now. Russia’s war in Afghanistan is just one instance of the US attacking Russia by arming, training, and organizing Afghani ‘freedom fighters’ to cripple Russia’s military (the US…

Show me a country that tried socialism and wasn’t immediately besieged by capitalist thugs. You can’t, because there’s never been one. Capitalists have made sure of it. And they’ve got a body count in the millions from making sure it stays that way. Capitalists immediately attack socialism any time any country tries…

If the US had a functioning government:

That’s a feature of capitalism, not a bug. Amassing and consolidating wealth and power by capitalists for capitalists is what capitalism does. It’s what capitalism will always do. The amount of guard rails, the kind of protective and preventative laws and regulations required to keep capitalism from going this way…

“You want to profit off of our [insert product or service] while not giving us a piece of the pie...”

I’m not seein’ the difference. I mean,  Chopper might zap you because he thought it’d be funny. HK-47 might stab you because he thought it’d be funny. Six of one, half-dozen of the other....

I see your Chopper and raise you HK-47...meatbag.

The moment she was cast in the role, that’s when. Acting is collaborative, people working together to bring their personal touch, their knowledge and experience, to the final product. Do you have any idea how often actors and actresses get their part of the script and have suggestions or changes? It’s routine.

If you need special, extra-legal protections because you’re doing your job so poorly that people have legal grievances with you, you probably shouldn’t be doing that job. And that applies to ‘Johnny Law’ and his ‘qualified immunity’ as much as it does to ‘President Pettypants’ and his ‘executive privilege.’

A trustworthy AI has to reliably tell not simply ‘the truth’ but objective truths. As Americans may have noticed, courtesy of ‘news’ outlets like Fox, OANN, and Newsmax, there’s more to telling the truth than simply not lying. One must also provide a truth that is as free from biases as possible and consciously aware…