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That doesn't matter. What matters is having enough money or power to hold someone responsible for wronging you, without it ruining your life.
by DANmode 4y ago
That doesn't matter.
What matters is having enough money or power to hold someone responsible for wronging you, without it ruining your life.
- sircastor 4y agoI suspect even with attorneys you have another risk of alienating yourself among producers and studios. If you have a bad reputation (like having the audacity to demand pay for your work) you find yourself unhireable.
- nullc 4y agoYou take the hit for actually suing, but if you look like you can afford to sue and win, you'll find that parties are magically more reasonable when you flag something unjust. That's part of the double prejudice-- that if you're in the class that looks like it can get its way you get your way without the costs. If you're not and you scrape together the resources, you'll actually have to spend them and be thought of a trouble maker for it.
- internetter 4y agoMakes sense. We have laws & a justice system to protect workers, I suppose, but the workers just can't apply them in this hostile system. Man. This isn't news of course, but a nice reminder.
- DANmode 4y agoI'm sorry, honestly...it sucks shit to write.
- gkoberger 4y agoWhich is why unions exist. No individual could fight back against "Hollywood", but combined they're able to.
- adastra22 4y agoIf they still wanted him to do work for the series after the switchover it would be slavery / indentured servitude. If they ever replayed the show on broadcast television I think he'd have a case for backpay.
- tshaddox 4y agoWe need to get used to describing things as legal only when there is reasonable access to the legal system to achieve justice. The laws should be judged according to what the actual outcomes are, not what some written law says.
- JBiserkov 4y ago"Single-digit millionaires have no effective access to the US legal system."