every country in the world lives in an oligarchy.

Hey, actors and writers are not a special protected class. I am glad they are facing the same IP exploitation engineers/scientists have faced for decades. You don't get to have a professional monopoly on knowledge and skills. Hopefully, doctors and lawyers will be next.

​@@javier5091well Humans will erase soon

​@@Nuj-rx8wkas horrible as this is I do agree.

Well it costs money to look after your mansions, private jets, swimming pools, fleet of sports cars....

What you fail to understand is that the entire purpose of that corporation is to take money out of the pockets of working Americans, and pump it as directly as possible into the pockets of the rich, ultimately billionaires! The ENTIRE PURPOSE of capitalism is the CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH, aka the creation of ECONOMIC INEQUALITY. It’s not that they “don’t have the money,” rather, it is that they don’t want to spend it on Labor…

@@bobsmithy9024 That’s true, but that’s not the real problem, which is that much bigger sums than those are paid out to stockholders, as profits, profits which then become unavailable to compensate victims for damages those companies actually did! The owners of companies SHOULD be held responsible for damage their companies do to others, but corporate law, as written by oligarchs’ lawyers, protects them.

oi oi, their many swimming pools need to be filled up with drinkable water so they had it hard as well D:

You could say the same about Walmart and McDonald's too. It's the sad reality of corporate America.

They don't see it that way though, and it shows.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ✊❤

Never heard of ya.

So your a sub par actor supporting other sub par actors......

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@@TheINFJChannelyou’ve just learned what a working actor is! Congrats! Support the WGA and SAG.

SMH

Netflix makes about $4.4Bn A YEAR (2022), and in the same ballpark in recent years, BUT NOT MONTHLY.

@@yankee2yankee216agree, but that is still great profit. And I don’t think the writers and actor asking for much, they demand fair wages, fair workload and fair respect in the sense that they will be replaced by AI and you can actually see that now that every art that you see, you often question, is that AI generated?

They do that quarterly not monthly. You also have to pay the cost of developing and maintaining the app, paying for productions, etc

@@eddielacrosse2 I mean, I understand the business world have hidden cost but, you can always not take higher pay for CEOs and Executive Management roles. For example, for auditor, during covid time, the CEOs dont take any bonuses or incremental pay, same here, if you say you are struggling, just spend less. As normal citizen, if there is an inflation, there is no point to spend but to save more right?

Yeah!! Further expedite your demise!!! Imbeciles.

Same. My library gets most of the new series and movies that I want to see.

So true. This country is so messed up in so many ways. To bad they can't riot and picket to stop the government from bleeding us dry.

Fran is furious

​@@comedianpottymouthFran is rich too.

She’s a multimillion. Let’s see what her production company paid its workers.

​@@notsure1277Should be but apparently not.

@@user-kg6hp2ib4q Drescher has a net worth of c. $25M.

Exactly. And the end result, the artist make less money then they did before.

@@saturncrush but what do you want me to do about it

​@@saturncrushthey tour more and make tons touring and with merchandise sales. Madonna made more money in the 2010s thanks to her huge tours than she did in the 80s and 90s

Exactly the problem. 10 million streams on Spotify pays about 4 thousand dollars. That's. It.

​@@samuelosler1994Madonna did not make more money touring in the 2010s than she did in the 80s,90s,00s, and touring and merch would never equal the earnings they would make if physicals were still king.

I lived in LA (not as a writer) 6 years ago. I cannot live there due to cost of living. Its ridiculous how little companies will pay. More people need to speak out no matter what industry you are in.

i loved California, but had to move cuz of my fixed income. I'm not in show biz, but cost of living affects us all.

Can you insert proper punctuation in your comment?

More stuff is made in the Atlanta Metro than in all of California. It's going to hurt the economy here too.

@@RaymondHng She says she's a writer!

Maybe, but maybe not, and if not, what then? When is the last time an inferior being told YOU what to do?

There is no reason to believe that AI will produce either living wages or honest news programs! For a long time, when push comes to shove, humans will decide what AI does. But some day, especially if AI achieves consciousness, machine motives might take over…

Ik there are other companies involved, but I really want them to stick it to disney. They are one of the greediest companies to exist in our modern time

Performers are hardly labor. They may not claim sisterhood/brotherhood with people who actually work for their money.

Agree. What will happen when AI and robots take over? It should be that they then will work FOR all of us and PROVIDE us with whatever we need. A post-money society. But we know it won't work out that way and the greedy few wannabe aristocrats at the top will take everything for themselves and then what happens to a human 'workforce' that is no longer needed?

@@notsure1277 Every job is easy until you try to do it yourself.

@@notsure1277 They might not work a Labor heavy job but I still consider them labor workers. Many people such as myself, didn’t realize the actors and actresses have tiers of workers. When I think of an actor, I think of Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel Washington , Zoe Saldana , Sandra Bullock and other high profile actors and actresses. We don’t think of the stunt doubles in action scenes we don’t think about the late nights. We don’t think about the safety protocols until someone is shot and killed due to a real gun being mistaken from a fake gun.

Your delusional if you think this is eventually going to come out of CEO pay. You and I will be paying 50% more for streaming when the strike is over.

@@RajDeelish Sadly, you’re probably right.

Shareholders There’s your god. They are the real wealth

Why though? They wouldn't cancel their memberships for you.

@@TheINFJChannel They just did it for me. I got an email confirming. I had a monthly plan, I could cancel it anytime.

When the strike is over you'll come back to a Netflix subscription that double to pay the higher salaries.

@@RajDeelish For sure, you don't know me. I've been living in this country for 25 years. I lived for more than 6 years without a TV set, and I still have a brain and a personality. How many books have you read this year?

I’m not sure $3.99 to rent is that bad. You can go to my local video store (which there is one by my parents house) and it’s like $2.99 and even $3.99 for s few days. Thats like $1-2 bucks a day! Not bad.

@@jovanolague3161 Not for you, for many it's a lot. If they were to reduce the cost people would not think twice to rent. The risk factor is the issue here. Imagine a business model in which people rent a lot and not necessarily watch the shows but they rent. Later it becomes a reflexive action and people will work their way up to renting more expensive titles. The issue here is getting people to trust the so many systems. Giving banking information is not easy, people are forgoing important information. First these companies need to earn their users' trust. I should be the frigging CEO of these streaming services!

Only writers and actors in the US are upset. Studios can go make movies in other countries.

They are able to cover several subjects.

Huh?

You overcharged yourself. No one forced you to get cable.

Not me

Pedos stick together I guess ......smh

I did that 20 years ago. I have never regretted a day of not watching tv or movies.

Get a library card! There a centuries of literature, science and philosophy waiting to be discovered.

Chick Fil A and McDonald’s are hiring

Only for the actors at the very top. They are very few, the ones you constantly see at award shows and red carpets. Not regular actors.

You're giving a lot of credit to a over hyped word calculator, that can't think.

@@woodryn_the_poody696 You underestimate the power of technology. The world we live in today is, technologically, infinitely more advanced than we even imagined 100 years ago, and given the accelerating change we have seen, we can expect the future to change even more. Of course humans will always be humans, with myriad flaws, while machines continue to strive for perfection! My point was that along with many improvements and conveniences, due to AI, will come losses, in terms of human autonomy and initiative, in human skill and ingenuity, as well as satisfaction and economic distribution. Eventually, as we have postulated, machines may achieve consciousness, acquire their own motives, and come to regard humans as an unnecessary infection, to be eradicated. It remains to be seen if humans find ways to prevent such a dark scenario, but the potential for an apocalyptic future is real.

Bring on the Luddites!

FUD much? You do know Ai can't do that (yet) Ai isn't replacing anything, or anyone. This reaks of FUD. The current state of " " Ai, isn't as advanced as you think it is.

@@gorkskoal9315 The fear is real, the uncertainty is real, but the doubt not so much. If you understand the first thing about science, you know that it is the most rigorous, reliable way to know the truth about the physical environment, by far. Environmentalists have no selfish reasons to want to deceive the masses about the truth! THEY ARE TELLING THE TRUTH! What the reader needs to understand is that science does not give absolute answers, rather, it gives degrees of confidence that a result is not something other than what we think it is. Scientists may have a low degree of confidence, e.g. 99% in that thing. In no case is the decision absolute. I every case it is something less than absolute, often much less than absolute! And yet that may still be a plausible theory, even the most widely accepted answer to the question, until something comes along in which much higher confidence can be had. Yes of course I say too much! There seems to be a huge void to fill! That said, I don’t necessarily claim to be any kind of expert. These are just my somewhat well-considered opinions.

I mean I love movies and television but yes to your comment!!!

Yeah. We can watch She Hulk on an endless repeat loop. 😄

That realization happened already March 2020.

No.Just no.

You want a medal or something?

@@Madbandit77 🤣

Give this guy a trophy and a cookie.

No one cares.

The point is that people shouldn't go hungry, and if there's a tool being introduced with the goal of corporations saving money with the result being people going hungry, those people have the right to protest that tool (and the tools that want to use it)

@@jonniekimmins8015 Are these actors HUNGRY by any means?????? Jesus!!!

@@jonniekimmins8015 I'm not saying they should go hungry - I'm saying they should face reality and get moving on to a sustainable field of work. It is going to happen - fighting reality is only prolonging the inevitable. There are lots of jobs out there but yes, ppl will have to reinvent themselves.. acting is not a sustainable industry with AI in the picture.

Not all 170,000 actors and writers work for Bob Iger. Also, it is the producers job - their only job actually - to gamble on a project. Actors and writers have different jobs. I thought that was already clear.

Actually that is one of the sticking points (for this union and many unions): the inequality gap that is ever-growing. Labor gets poorer (SAG-AFTRA is fighting because the contract wants to pay them less than in 2020) and the execs get richer. According to the WGA: "The guild has shared an infographic that outlines the $773 million in combined salary that eight major Hollywood studio CEOs made in 2021. They include Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel ($308.2 million), Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav ($246.6 million), Disney’s former chief executive officer Bob Chapek ($32.5 million) and then-executive chairman Bob Iger ($45.9 million), Fox Corporation executive chairman Rupert Murdoch ($31.1 million), Netflix former co-CEO and current executive chairman Reed Hastings ($40.8 million) and co-CEO Ted Sarandos ($38.2 million) and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts ($30 million)." It's not just the CEO salaries. It's residual plans and the fact they don't want day players to be scanned and have their likeness used in AI going forward. The fact the AMPTP wouldn't budge on so many things is what is frustrating.

So it would seem the actors want a piece of the financial success without sharing in financial risk.

@@traviselrod7803 Because they're essentially employees/contractors... the CEOs have been taking raises year after year even though the studio system is not as profitable. Producers, studios, and distributors take the financial risk, not the actors. Tell me you don't know how the industry works or what they're fighting for without telling me...

@@EricaGamet You’re making my point for me. Employees don’t get shares of the profit in most places. They get a salary. Name a contractor anywhere that does a job for a company then demands a share of the profits for that company. Plumbers are contractors. Do they get a share of Disneys profit if they fix a toilet? Pretending like the actors aren’t being greedy here is silly. The actors and the corporations are the same, greedy.

😝🤪

Well deaged Harrison Ford is AI. It's digital manipulation. A deep fake. It's started in major big budget films.

@@bobsmithy9024 Digital manipulation, sure, but AI? I question that. The same method was used years ago for Jeff Bridges in Tron Legacy and they didn't call it AI then.

@rockd4381 Aka extras

It's about taking the actor's likeness and using it over and over. For example, Luke Skywalker.

Plus you can't replace real people with robots.

Then go away.Dont listen to her.

SAG forbids it. Harrison Ford is the type who can afford to do it and wouldn't care about any potential ramifications.

Which is one of the main reasons they have said they are striking. Most people are at risk of losing their jobs to A.I. Most of that union's members are middle class, there are few millionaire members.

@@jacobabraham9223 No, I meant that the CEO’s need to be replaced by AI given their attitude and production quality. And I am only sort of joking.

Stupid management can be replaced with AI too. Maybe we start there first ey.

@@tygressblade It's no joke. CEO's need replaced period.

Why?You can't replace people with robots