Gregory's ServerThis is what happens when you pay people for the work they do. (Via @Radical_EgoCom)
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@FinalOverdrive @aburtch @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social ...and they can grow as well into a business that can rival the big ones. Hopefully they will be able to stay union compliant. @aburtch @Radical_EgoCom hell yeah, they make fantastic films too. Good for them. @aburtch @Radical_EgoCom What IS unreasonable?  @aburtch @Radical_EgoCom To meet all the financial demands of the WAG/SAG-AFTRA strike would cost a paltry 420 million.... The colossal flops that were The Flash, and Dial Of Destiny cost waaaaaay more than that combined. There is no end of existing money to meet these demands. @aburtch @Radical_EgoCom A24 just continues to be the coolest people in the film industry.   @aburtch @radical_egocom@kolektiva.social Sweet. Let’s look them up and start watching all their movies now. @aburtch @radical_egocom@kolektiva.social These guys, right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A24_films  @bowreality @aburtch oh boy: The Whale, EEAAO, Pi and so many others...  @aburtch @robinsyl As I understand it, the interesting thing about this is that the agreement doesn't even specify exactly what the terms are. It's an agreement that, whatever the new industry norm is, A24 will (retroactively) match or beat it. The big studios still need to sit down with the unions and figure out what those terms will be.  @aburtch @Radical_EgoCom @lisamelton at a glance of the thumbnail i thought this was going to be about logo design.  @aburtch @Radical_EgoCom A24 is an amazing production house that supports original artistic visions and artists, this doesn't surprise me at all. It's been awesome watching them succeed by betting on creativity and supporting diversity. @aburtch @Radical_EgoCom It does not have to be a fight to the death or a mutual suicide pact (corporate media vs. the creative class). As soon as we can agree on dignity and fairness as mutual priorities, we’ll be getting somewhere. But writers and artists are not going to be ranched like veal. @BrickDuck @Radical_EgoCom I agree with your sentiment, but we’ll never get there because corporations aren’t people. They have no moral compass, no compassion, nothing. Their only purpose is profit and they are punished by shareholders if they don’t go to extreme lengths in pursuit of it. Dignity and fairness are not priorities for corporations, only profit. For example, Netflix paid their CEO more money last year than the writers are requesting over the course of their entire contract.  @aburtch @BrickDuck @Radical_EgoCom the history of the belief that corporations exist only to make a profit is fascinating and relatively new. It's not codified in law, charter or history. It's a fairly radical rewrite of history, and ignores virtually all of the last 300 years of practice.  @Seruko @aburtch @BrickDuck @Radical_EgoCom correct. "so we don't have to give a shit about social and environmental impacts as long as shareholders make bank?? Sign us up!" @Seruko @BrickDuck @Radical_EgoCom Sure, there are B Corps and sole proprietorships who care about their employees. And it may not have always been that way. But the reality we live in today is that CEOs have more money than they can spend in 1,000 years while teachers have to work multiple jobs to get by. And it’s not changing unless someone makes them. So far no one can or has. @aburtch @BrickDuck @Radical_EgoCom The companies in question are all about profit and pretty much, only profit. It's been clear as long as they have been around. I don't understand someone defending a company that has such unbelievable inequity in pay. Or defending companies that use people and their art without just compensation @aburtch @BrickDuck @Radical_EgoCom exactly. A corporation has only one purpose: to give the stock holders profit. It's literally the only thing they exist to do. @aburtch @Radical_EgoCom Some insight into that process and a bigger list of those who got the exemption.  |
@aburtch @Radical_EgoCom And this a small business. Small businesses can be union compliant.