Which, you know, have such a wonderous and healthy history in the US...

Well, by comparison to MGT or Boebert, she’s not Republican. But by comparison to Graham or McConnell, she is pretty Republican. Which is kind of the point and the problem. There is no “left” party in the US. What Americans call ‘Democrats’ these days are really just the moderates and centralists of 40-50 years ago,…

They’re all driving in that direction. Because maximizing profits is the only driving force that capitalism responds to, and all of these major media outlets are run and owned by billionaire capitalists with a capitalist’s agenda — maximizing profits.

Okay. Let’s go with another example: Musk’s annual salary is approximately zero. Yes, really. Well, $23k because it’s the minimum allowable under California law. He is paid almost exclusive in stocks and compensations. In 2021, the value of a portion of his stocks and compensations from Tesla, for 3 years of work, was…

The fact that you have no clue is precisely why it’s so hard to have an honest conversation of about fair wages, reasonable taxation, and so forth. I’ll give you three guesses who created that ‘don’t talk about your wages’ narrative, but you should only need one.

The $250m is *JUST* the salary. The majority of CEO earnings do *NOT* come from their salaries. It comes from stocks and compensations. So if he’s being paid $250m in salary, he’s being paid *AT LEAST* that much in stocks and compensations. So it’s not $250m vs $430m. It’s $430m vs $500m at minimum.

David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery, gets paid an annual salary of $250,000,000 per year and additional stocks and compensations on top of that. The math is real. It checks out.

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…

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…

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If the US had a functioning government:

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

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.’

It’s easy to see no value of other people’s work when your job is removing value from other people’s work, ie ‘maximizing’ profits. Which is why those in charge almost *NEVER* value anyone’s work except their own.

You know why this smells bad? Because the dead man is already being demonized in the media which immediately took to airing all of his past. Yet, what did he do to start this altercation? Nobody knows. We have only ‘words’ about how other people ‘perceived’ or ‘felt’ about his behavior. But we do know he did not…

Which is part of the underlying reason for the WGA strike — writers are really getting screwed by streaming platforms.