cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/workreform@lemmy.world/t/334142
The sorry state of streaming residuals shows why SAG and the WGA are striking.
Pay the writers - sign the contract! ✊
Wow this is so fucked.
Absolutely horrifying considering how well suits is written.
I say stay on strike for as long as possible. It’s a benefit for all mankind. I’m finally catching up on a ton of stuff I was behind on. Also, why work for scraps if you’re not getting paid appropriately.
This is even more insane than finding out the creator and showrunner for Squid Game made $100k for it.
In all fairness, based on the accuracy of how courts are portrayed in Suits, the writers spent anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes writing this. Pretty impressive pay.
source: watched the entire series and loved it
Edit: this is a bit of a semantic but X billion minutes is a completely meaningless metric. Netflix isn’t paid by minutes spent watching something. You could assume those minutes mean a liklihood of customers being retained or added, but without data on that relationship it remains an anecdote really. It could be a trillion minutes watched. If it neither gained nor retained customers for Netflix it has no meaningful relationship with the writers, actor, or producers “rightful” earnings.