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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
There are several reasons this stuff is so rife in the entertainment industry.
* Hundreds of thousands of talented, attractive, desperately ambitious people competing to become among the handful who become stars. And unlike other hyper-competitive fields like sports, there’s no clear or objective way to sort the few from the many.
* This means personal relationships become the avenue to the top of the pyramid, giving gatekeepers tremendous power and tremendous opportunity for exploitation of people who will do almost anything for a chance to grasp the golden rung.
* This dynamic operates in a licentious atmosphere where casual sex, alcohol, and drug use among peers and colleagues is common.
Identifying the most egregious exploitation by gatekeepers is a welcome corrective. But it will only go so far to reduce abuse as long as the systems and incentives in the industry remain in place.
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I think the one big positive thing that has come out of technologies like Netflix, Prime etc. is that the opportunities for actors and actresses, and people in the film industry has expanded exponentially. Hopefully this will help reduce, or eliminate to a large degree, the exploitation that has gone on in the movie industry in the past.