#KingRichardsFaire is the largest #renfaire in New England, and its owner, #DickShapiro, extracts a reported $400k/day - a sum that is only possible thanks to systematic and illegal worker misclassification, which lets him pay performers sub-minimum wages and deny them benefits:
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Creative workers are part of a class of workers who suffer from #VocationalAwe, the sense that because your job is satisfying and/or worthy, you don't deserve to get paid for it: