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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, why do any of them deserve residuals? Most of us are paid for the work we do. If it’s successful after we move onto another job, we don’t get residuals. [/quote]

Residuals do not work like YOUR job's pay works. Period. No comparison.

You seem not to know that people get paid less [i]up front[/i] on the understanding that they will then be paid residuals over time, in amounts based on things like how much a show is viewed. They are not making a big wad of cash up front and then residuals are extra goodies on top of that. Residuals are part of the compensation they're owed for the work. Imagine if your job paid you a much smaller amount up front then said, we'll pay you the rest we owe you, dribbled out in tiny checks over a long, long time, IF the thing you built is still working well for us in a year, two years, five years....That's the deal. It sucks. It benefits only the studios and streamers, who then turn around and say, "Oh, that show isn't getting many eyeballs on streaming, here's  a check for 15 cents, sorry!" And 15 cents is not an exaggeration for effect, PP. Many, many residual checks are for pennies. Often that's based on streamers claiming shows aren't being watched. Guess what? Old-school "TV ratings" [i]don't really exist for most streaming[/i] so the streamers can just make up whatever they want about a show's "success" and no one can challenge them.

This is also why some streamers have pulled shows off entirely and won't show them at all. The streamers now don't want to pay anyone involved any of the owed residuals, so they've yanked less-known shows from all streaming. Gone. Max (HBO) did this just recently. So, how would you like it if even your tiny dribble of the remainder of your pay ended completely, and you'd never see the rest of your compensation, because your old bosses stowed your work product in a vault [i]just to avoid paying you?[/i]

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Then get rid of residuals. Get the money up front

The cast of Friends each get 20 million a year and haven’t worked on it since 2004.

And again, most of us are not paid up front much for our jobs. And if my work contributes to the future success of the business, I get nothing. Example, installation of electric lines, cable lines, cell towers, etc. The more installation the more money a company makes but not the installer. [/quote]

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