@rbreich it's amazing when as a CEO you could work for just one quarter and earn enough to set you up comfortably for life. And you could work for two years and put yourself in the ultra rich sector to live extremely lavishly for the rest of your life without lifting a finger.
Meanwhile the rank and file are nothing like as well compensated. Scrimping and saving for decades to pay off college debts, find enough to save for a modest retirement, and hopefully a house.
@rbreich the corporations are irresponsible and ruining the planet. The people--the writers, students, women, Black folks, Brown folks, LGBTQ folks, folks who are tired of being shot at, all banded together--we are the superheroes of our own story! #WeAreTheGuardrails
@rbreich I feel like all corporations should be non-profit by default. Profit is wasted potential. Pay your employees, pay your suppliers, pay your overhead, pay your loans, and then, if there's any money left over, put every single cent back into the company. R&D, better medical coverage (since some greedy pricks decided to make employment a necessary prerequisite for receiving health care in the US), better food service, employee buses, etc. Make it a good place to work, make it a good business for consumers to support. In other words: be a good citizen (not, like, American citizens with their arsenals and low-grade constant anxiety, though, normal citizens who feel safe enough in their everyday lives to actually give a shit about others).
How many writers? Were the $250M spread evenly among them, how much would that be? (Divide that by about 5K and you get about $50K.) It's enough to make a big difference in their lives.
Just so I understand: #Disney, who've spent millions of $ over the years changing US #copyright laws to ensure that anyone using their work has to pay fees every time they use it (in perpetuity), don't want to pay the writers fees for the moneymaking work they create for Disney every time Disney uses it (in perpetuity)? #residuals #wgastrike #pencilsdown
@rbreich They won't. Becasue those writers aren't famous. That means they are 'liability'. They'll pay for their starts(which are their assets, or at least what we know) and CEO's. Even if they do get a raise, they'll cut as soon as another crisis, they'll cut again. Same thing with set workers. I know it's unethical, but that's reality.
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