Well two points, firstly writers often don't get royalties every show has a writer's room of staff hired for that season, they're paid a day rate or for the sea

Well two points, firstly writers often don't get royalties every show has a writer's room of staff hired for that season, they're paid a day rate or for the season and they don't get royalties from syndication or streaming rights - this was one of the major sticking points during the last contract negotiations between the union, talent agencies, and studios. Which leads to the second point: Hollywood is heavily unionized. If we unionized our industry it would look more like the Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild than the Teamsters.