The salesman took no part in making the car. He is literally just the middle man. That guy is an idiot.
But contracts equal morality! Ayn Rand gave the Holy Writ on this, I believe it, that settles it!
Is the point still valid if you replace salesman with whoever worked on manufacturing the car?
The metaphor would at least make sense. The point he is trying, and failing, to make is stupid. Workers deserve a fair share of the profits.
The writers were paid when they wrote the show. They don’t own the rights to it. That guy made a good point.
That type of thinking is one of the major problem in our country right now. The idea that a company can pay their employees the lowest wage they can get away with and then rake in millions off of their work without sharing any of the profits is what is leading to the end of the middle class. It’s ignorant as fuck.
In this example, the salesman (Netflix) is literally getting paid over and over for this content
Writers aren't car salesmen. Writers create the foundation of the show. They're more similar to the engineers who design cars.
.. who also don't get paid based on how long or how much the car is driven.
They also don't get paid $3,000 to design cars
Exactly. Now, how much are the engineers who worked on the design of all of the 2008 Ford Focus are getting paid quarterly based on the number of miles driven in 2008 Ford Focuses in 2022?
What a stupid sentiment. Writers have been paid residuals for their work since the advent of television when reruns became possible.
Whole lotta bootlickers on this thread
I feel like there's some argument with intellectual property vs physical product or service vs physical product.
It's a matter of ownership on who gets paid.
