Just to talk about residuals a bit more. In most industries, when a company produces something they need to pay labourers some money. Every time a a company makes a chocolate bar or a TV or a car, labourers are paid some money. After that item is sold, the company needs to make a new one and so labourers are constantly being paid.
Movies and shows are different. Labourers are paid to make it and then the company can sell it an infinite number of times without paying anyone anything. It’s a digital file. This means companies can profit off the labourers’ work for decades without paying them any more than the initial cost. Residuals are a way to make it so entertainers are paid similarly to any other labourer. Each time the movie company makes a copy, they have to pay the labourers a small amount of money. That way if the company profits for decades, so do the people who actually appear in it.
The actors are on strike because their performances are being played over and over and over and customers pay the company over and over and over and the actors only get paid once.
Two people can’t live in the same house. If you had two people wanting the same house, you’d build two houses and get paid twice. Every time someone wanted a house from you, you’d receive payment for providing it.
Writers don’t build houses. They write a script. That script doesn’t need to be rewritten by the writer every time someone wants to read it or use it. The writer does it once and then it can be used an infinite number of times by an infinite number of people simultaneously. That’s a lot of value for a one time job!
Companies profit massively from this value. If a million people watch a show they charge for a million tickets. Writers want a cut of the ticket price. They are the ones who did the work. Why are they not entitled to a share of its profits?
Most of the planets are dull on purpose because my graphics card catches fire if there’s too much excitement on screen. Thanks for looking out for me, Todd!
Hello fellow Japanese anime enjoyers! Me and my “waifu” are plotting acts of terrorism against the United States of America. Does anyone else do this??
I once lived in a city that had a by-law where all businesses were closed on Sunday. At first I found the law annoying, but honestly those super quiet Sundays really grew on me.
This is something that people often don’t know about. For certain things there can actually be little to no experts. One example, ski lifts. There are only a handful of people in the entire world who know how to splice together ski lift cables.
A more concerning one is nuclear engineers. There’s been such a stigma against nuclear power that the amount of people who know how to build a nuclear reactor has fallen to incredibly low numbers. Also, the US had to reverse engineer some of their own nuclear weapons because the people who built them all died and the knowledge of how they were built died with them.
An analysis of the sculpted shoes on the statues in China’s Terracotta Army, which dates back about 2200 years, suggests that their real-life soldier equivalents had surprisingly flexible footwear
I almost feel bad for the new “CEO”. It really seems like she’s doing her best to give the impression that Twitter is still a sane company with reasonable business practices, only for Elon to completely disregard her messaging and do the exact opposite.
Shamwow is made of a blend of rayon and polypropylene which gives it a lightweight and super absorbent use. Rayon is a manufactured regenerated cellulose fiber. Polypropylene, also known as polypropene, is a thermoplastic polymer.
This. Socrates thought writing things down prevented you from truly “knowing” something since you’d be looking up the notes later on. That implies you don’t know the info, you just know where to find it.
We know he thought that because his students wrote it down.
South Korea is running into the same problem. Most advanced economies have low birthrate, but South Korea has the lowest in the entire world. This has created an issue of a looming population crisis.
Typically countries fix this by allowing more immigration, but South Korea is incredibly xenophobic and many would rather attempt to deal with a population collapse than allow non-koreans into the country.
I think the most novel proposal we put forward in the report is taxing the total real estate holdings of large landowners, as opposed to individually taxing each property using the aforementioned brackets. This could entail situations where large landowners own a portfolio of properties, each falling below that $3 million threshold, but that cumulatively add up to tens of millions of dollars. In this scenario, by taxing the total holdings instead of each property separately, these owners would no longer be able to avoid paying those progressive property tax rates.
There’s a few interesting bits to this article, but I like this one the most. Property taxes on the cumulative amount of property a person or company owns is huge. It provides a punishment for buying up large amounts of property.
So BlackRock can buy it and rent it out to people for $3,000 a month? What use is more housing if rich people who own 1,000 houses are just going to buy it? The solution is more complicated.
The U.K.‘s Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has won plaudits from an unlikely source for taking a tough line on taxation after she pledged that the Labour Party would not introduce a wealth tax if it forms a government following the next British election....
Rule 2 of this community is that the questions can’t be about something illegal. Trespassing and destruction of property are illegal. It doesn’t matter if it’s hypothetical.
Trade Minister Mary Ng says Canada is launching challenges under the North American free-trade deal as well as before the U.S. Court of International Trade.
Ng says Canada remains open to negotiating a resolution to the decades-old dispute, which she calls “unfair, unjust and illegal,” while arguing it increases housing costs.
I love how literally everything the government does is suddenly a fight against housing costs.
There’s a part of your brain called the chemoreceptor trigger zone which triggers the vomiting reaction. Dizziness is one of the things which can activate this zone. It’s thought that since dizziness is a common side effect of poisons, we’ve evolved to vomit whenever we’re dizzy.
The NDP finally got a taste of power once they teamed up with the minority Liberal government but their biggest win is free dental care for children living in low-income households. It’s better than nothing I suppose, but I really don’t see that swaying any voters.
To add on to this: Instance admins have no control over moderating content from other instances that they’re federated with. An acceptable post on one instance could be rule breaking to another. The only option that other instance has is to defederate. Admins have acknowledged defederation is an extreme measure for what is often just a few problem communities or users, but they have no other option.
All the Conservatives have to do is wait long enough and they’ll win an election. They literally don’t need to do anything. Eventually enough Canadians will blame the current Prime Minister for their city buses running late and vote in a Conservative.
A federal judge has determined that Rudy Giuliani has lost a defamation lawsuit from two Georgia election workers against him after he failed to provide information sought in subpoenas....
Yes, because as long as your statement is presented as an opinion or rhetoric then it’s protected speech. It only becomes defamation when you emphasize that your statements aren’t opinions but actual facts that you can prove with (non-existent) evidence. It’s also why Fox lost their lawsuit.
It pisses me off nobody calls him out on things like this. He also loves saying he’s against government elitists who never worked a real job when he’s been a member of Parliament since 25, the youngest Conservative to ever hold a seat, and before that he was a political aid.
deleted_by_moderator
Rugrats, featuring a meme almost as old as time. Or almost as old as me. One or the other. (lemmy.world)
North Korea-backed hackers target security researchers with 0-day (arstechnica.com)
Must you murder everyone we meet? (startrek.website)
Climate change activists disrupted the US open last night, protesting the use of fossil fuels. (feddit.uk)
Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose because 'when the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there' but 'they certainly weren't bored' (www.pcgamer.com)
Sure Todd, lol
Waifus waifus (lemmy.world)
My fellow weebs, ask not what the CIA can do for you, ask what you can do for the CIA. (lemmus.org)
Big Real Estate Executives Among Top Donors to Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives (pressprogress.ca)
Big Surprise, faux populist backed by real estate moguls
Reduce carbon emissions (lemmy.world)
Why do people not hire experts?
Terracotta Army shoes reveal secrets of ancient Chinese footwear (archive.ph)
An analysis of the sculpted shoes on the statues in China’s Terracotta Army, which dates back about 2200 years, suggests that their real-life soldier equivalents had surprisingly flexible footwear
For the next 24 hours, your friends have to do whatever you want to do. What activities, places, or things are you and your friends doing, going to, using, or buying during your day?
Elon Musk Threatens To Sue Anti-Defamation League For X’s Lost Ad Revenue (www.huffpost.com)
Has anyone tried pitching high speed rail to the 65+ crowd like this before? (startrek.website)
Socrates the shitposter (lemmy.world)
Broadcaster: I heard a rumor that he even has some hair left and those are his original teeth. Incredible. (lemmy.world)
Steehem Deck. wOW! (lemmy.ml)
Japan wrestles with its views on ‘outside people’ amid population crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?
Dark rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
The Housing Crisis Isn’t Going Anywhere Until We Tackle Property Wealth Inequality (jacobin.com)
US Republican senator praises UK Labour’s ‘Reaganesque’ policy (www.politico.eu)
The U.K.‘s Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has won plaudits from an unlikely source for taking a tough line on taxation after she pledged that the Labour Party would not introduce a wealth tax if it forms a government following the next British election....
Ruleionaire (i.imgur.com)
Capitalism meme (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
18+ Insane rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
deleted_by_moderator
Anon ends his day at the kinoplex (sh.itjust.works)
Ottawa launches new softwood lumber dispute challenges, urges U.S. to negotiate (globalnews.ca)
Trade Minister Mary Ng says Canada is launching challenges under the North American free-trade deal as well as before the U.S. Court of International Trade.
Should the United States move Labor Day back to May 1st like the rest of the world?
Why does the inner ear imbalance make you throw up?
Quite literally. How come when we feel “confused”, we start getting the need to expel the contents from our stomach?...
Ongoing cost-of-living crisis should trigger another housing benefit payment: Singh (nationalpost.com)
I dont like drama (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
Almost half of Canadians living paycheque to paycheque as Tory support grows: poll (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (for when someone says it's too complicated to catch on) (www.staygrounded.online)
PS- The "real" (non-joke) full guide for the Masto-curious is here.
lane closed for no r(ule)eason
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/31ddf4b6-0686-42c9-a430-e047b99717a8.jpeg
It ain't xmas yet but i am in the giving spirit (lemmy.ml)
rule (beehaw.org)
Giuliani loses defamation lawsuit from two Georgia election workers (www.cnn.com)
A federal judge has determined that Rudy Giuliani has lost a defamation lawsuit from two Georgia election workers against him after he failed to provide information sought in subpoenas....
Ukraine says its soldiers took out a Russian helicopter with artillery fire (www.businessinsider.com)
Guve me back my rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Security concerns might finally solve the 24 Sussex conundrum (www.cbc.ca)
What quote from a movie is instabtly recognisable?
Netflix: Streamer's expansion into gaming is 'natural extension' (www.bbc.co.uk)
Streaming hits such as the Queen's Gambit are being adapted as games as the streamer looks to expand.
Ontario government 'exploring' putting protections back on 2 Greenbelt sites (www.cbc.ca)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/4211544...