Fascinating article, with numerous examples where significant characters make trivial residuals on hit shows with significant streaming runs.

It also has implications in terms of explaining why kids of people who work in the industry are working in the industry. If you’ve got parents in LA and NY and they can help support you, you’re more likely to hang in a business that’s not actually paying a living wage.

It gives a different lens on Mica Burton’s appearance in Picard season three as a recurring character for example.

Burton, the daughter of the “Star Trek” star LeVar Burton, tweeted about how little she got paid when she appeared in five episodes of “Star Trek: Picard” earlier this year.

In response to a thread regarding misconceptions about the union, Mica wrote: “Please read this thread. I said before, there is no way I could survive as a working actor if I didn’t have my 100 other side hustles. Yes, I was on Star Trek. I also do not qualify for SAG health insurance and was paid almost the same fee my dad was paid for Roots back in 1977.”

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    Honestly high paid actors are over valued. Stars shouldn’t make so much and should have to pay 50-80% back to the guild as a tax. The guild helped developed good actors so if a company requests them and they are high demand they can subsidize everyone else.

    Idk the numbers for the movie industry. But every worker in America generates over 100k a year worth of value yet the median income is under 50k

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      Or…the corporations could keep slightly less profit and actually pay people for their labor?

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        Why not both this includes CEOs. There is no good reason for the pay disparity of 5-10 million and 25k in the acting profession

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      Yeah its sorta funny how it went from vaudville to superstars. I mean im pretty sure reagan did pretty well outside of what he got from politics. Can you believe that???