> Yet writers, like most actors, are notoriously underpaid. ...according to writers. Writers seem to me to be paid at a market clearing rate, with the protect

> Yet writers, like most actors, are notoriously underpaid. ...according to writers. Writers seem to me to be paid at a market clearing rate, with the protection of a union. It seems to me that if they were truly underpaid they might find a better use for their time.