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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's a comfortable living for most.
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Lol. Acting? Acting is a comfortable living for most?
No, it’s really not. The vast vast majority of actors are people with multiple jobs maybe booking a commercial or small TV spot every now and again for a couple grand. Those people are under the same union as any other performer and if people at the top didn’t put their foot down when they were getting boned, it means that they all get boned. That it becomes the norm for them to not make money on these new release platforms.
Entertainment performers (Actors, Musicians, Athletes) have been exploited from day one. It’s really only the past few decades that the top performers in these professions started earning anything more than one could as a lawyer or doctor or any other decently high paid job, with a very uncertain career path. And the reason their very strong unions exist is because the studios/owners/record labels/ scammed them at every turn possible as these markets became lucrative. And are still trying.