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Why would the actors complain about farmhands? The base assumption of organized labor and unions are that you need to fight for yourself, but that we (as fellow
by delusional 3y ago
Why would the actors complain about farmhands? The base assumption of organized labor and unions are that you need to fight for yourself, but that we (as fellow laborers) will support you. We can't fight for each other (what would actors even do to protest farmhand wages?) but we can support each other in the shared fight for a fair share of the excess value.
I don't understand this modern idea of a dystopia as society's end goal, and every struggle against that as some unjust act. People need to fucking eat. Actors need to fucking eat. If what they do to eat now is under threat, they have every right, moral and logical, to fight for their right to eat.
- failuser 3y agoFamous actors have huge PR capabilities, they definitely can support labor efforts in other industries or help suppress it. Call for boycotts of union-busting companies, help elect pro-union politicians and so on. Or be Ronald Regan and get elected and bust unions.
- delusional 3y agoThere's a danger in that sort of activism, and direct intervention often results in backlash. It's very hard to protest capitalism on the consumer side. It rarely works for protests that directly affect the consumer and I've never seen it work for proxy fights. I'm sure most actors do think they are making a positive difference through the films they choose to act in. I'm sure they believe in and push for messaging they think help people. I don't think they believe (rightly or not, i don't know) that they have the direct influence to "simply" help elect certain politicians.