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Why Aren't Porn Stars Paid More?
- bediger 15y agoI t seems to me that the author of this article hasn't thought through the issues, and has some serious misconceptions. For instance: "the range of skills required by mainstream actors" seems quite naive. What about Keanu Reeves, who always always always plays the same character? One could go on at length about such actors: Burt Reynolds, Don Knotts, Patrick Swayze... The author does come to the correct conclusion: remove copyright protection for Hollywood for increased social good. My own, totally unsupported by evidence thought is that the porn movie industry gets used for money laundering. It's possible for criminal organizations to funnel many small amounts (some from each "soldier" each day) through on-line porn sites and CCBILL card processing. The small amount per transaction doesn't raise any banking-law flags. In aggregate, there's a ton of money to take out, and it's at least nominally "clean" money, unlike the small amounts put in.