Re: Strike

In article <unrvi3l6rr3u4opop56etn10dfo2a1n0qk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Rob Jensen <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


> Umm, no.  The most appropriate analogy is that the writers, actors and
> directors all get royalties for the same reasons that musicians and
> novelists and other entertainment creators do -- to give them
> incentives to create more work by paying them bonuses.
> 
    The autoworker analogy would only work if the automakers got a cut 
of the sale price of used cars. Since the Studios get multiple streams 
of revenue, the writers and other talent guilds want their part of the 
downstream money.