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Is the screen actor's guild a US style union? Because it seems to be working just fine for their top performers.
by jjeaff 5y ago
Is the screen actor's guild a US style union? Because it seems to be working just fine for their top performers.
- flir 5y agoEvery counterexample will be a special case for some reason. Police unions?
- legutierr 5y agoPolice officers seem on an individual level to be quite happy with their unions.
- throwaway894345 5y agoSociety on the other hand, less so.
- JohnWhigham 5y agoSeeing as police won't hire you if your IQ is too high, top performers aren't really a concern for them.
- syshum 5y agoNo, it is not. SAG is in no way the norm when it comes to US Labor employment unions.
- ethanbond 5y agoWhy so? Is it structurally different?
- throwaway894345 5y agoFilm stars are their own brand. People will go see the new Owen Wilson movie but they won’t buy software just because it’s built by Frank the SWE. This isn’t a good comparison IMO.
- someguydave 5y agoI would buy software built by Frank the SWE if he was good. Why can’t I find authorship information for software?
- ghaff 5y agoSignificant software is rarely an individual effort. Same with movies of course but a film star can have an outsized impact. A lot of software does often have a credits splash screen somewhere, if it's open source you can probably see contributions on GitHub, etc. Game designers are fairly well known even if all the coders aren't.
- alisonkisk 5y agowhy do you think you can't? people can talk about what they work on. You can buy John Carmack products.
- emptyparadise 5y agoI'd buy software written by Fabrice Bellard.
- username90 5y agoTop performers doesn't like SAG, they'd prefer not to be in it but SAG forces them to pay their union fees and not take non-union contracts anyway since most big budget movies are union shops. And you can't compare professions where you get paid for fame with professions where you get paid for performance. It is really hard to prevent famous people from making loads of cash, but it is very easy to prevent high performers from getting a higher salary than their peers as both companies and unions would prefer that.
- criddell 5y agoUnions for professional athletes seem to have figured out how to get paid for performance.