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Unions Urging Actors Not To Work On Hobbit Movie
lbalbalba writes "Last we heard about The Hobbit, Guillermo Del Toro dropped out, Peter Jackson was unofficially directing and secretly auditioning actors, the movie had yet to be green-lit, and Ian McKellen was getting super-antsy about the whole thing and threatening not to play Gandalf. This shouldn't help the long-gestating movie happen any quicker: Actors guilds including SAG issued actual alerts yesterday against working on any of the Hobbit films, advising their members not to take parts in the non-union production, should they be offered them."
Don't join in then. You want to go to work then go to fucking work, your employer will probably love you.
"Welcome to our world. We are the wasted youth. And we are the future too." Yes, I know these are stupid lyrics.
Yes that's why there was so little progress in the 20th century and so much in the preceding ones. Read a fucking history book some time.
Bullshit! I have serious doubts that your "union representative" in your "not unionized" role has spoken to you (a seemingly anti-union but evidently paying union member) about working too hard. The cliche just seems a little too convenient and hardly at all plausible.
Shouldn't those top earning actors have 95% of their wages seized and distributed evenly amongst the poorer actors?
Oh wait, those "liberals" are for wealth redistribution for everybody else, not them.
Yes because there's no good paying jobs that are non union and no one who's not in a union gets benefits packages / insurance....oh wait, over 90% of the workforce is non-union.
It's amazing how so many ordinary working people are actually against organisations looking out for ordinary working people.
And the union propagandists hoodwinked you perfectly. Unions are not about "working people". I have several relatives working for different unions (Teamsters, NEA, UAW, etc). The unions defend lazy workers from getting fired, cause incompetent workers to get paid as much as the hardest working, prevent people from getting raises based on their job performance, etc. Unions are (in general) the savior of the lazy and incompetent. Unions also lobby for economically damaging policies, such as import quotas, tariffs, preventing open trading among countries, etc - all policies that have been proven throughout history to harm everyone in society just for the benefit of the union. People are able to form unions anywhere they want - yet union membership, even in union heavy European countries, continues to drop. There's a reason for that.
Maybe decades of right-wing propaganda has made everyone think they're going to become a millionaire off the backs of their own hard work, sort of why poor people vote for tax cuts for the rich.
Which is funny, because in terms of real income and purchasing power, over the last few decades the poor in the US have increased their income / purchasing power by a larger percentage than the "evil rich". That's also why real median and mean income has increased significantly over the last few decades. As for tax cuts for "the evil rich"? Even with the Bush tax cuts, they're still paying between 50-100% more as a fraction of their income than you do. If they were paying a lower rate than everyone else (though they'd still be paying more in terms of actual dollars), then you could complain about them getting tax cuts. However, when you're paying 20% income tax and they're paying 35%, you have no room to complain if their penalty for being successful drops to only 30%.
But then again, Economics is despised on Slashdot because it frequently contradicts the ideology of the average Slashdotter. It's funny that when science contradicts religion, Slashdotters call out the religious zealots for not basing their views on facts - yet when science contradicts socioeconomic policies / views, Slashdotters scream bloody murder about the "evil" people following the facts instead of the "religion".
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
Top actors will of course pay tax at the same rate as anyone else that earns the same pay. Most are indeed liberal, as are most intelligent people of most professions. And as such they will be very happy for the higher rates of tax to be increased, affecting them also.
You, you ignorant little troll, are only in it for yourself, and wouldn't understand that.