Like on principle, I know that the writer’s and actor’s guild and union shit is all good. I don’t think all the success from a movie or show should go 100% to the company, but it still feels weird saying that a Hollywood actor is working class.

What do y’all think? Am I just being a dumbass?

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[–] 14 points 1 week ago

Of the ~50 or so working top dollar names in Hollywood, there are thousands of actors who don't get to set their own price. And the ones that are big now may not be next year. While they can certainly invest in companies or start their own, making them bourgeois, if you ignore that they only own their own likeness. Hence the push for genAI by production companies. The high earners are at least petite bourgeois, certainly, but otherwise I would absolutely call them working class.

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