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Executive producer is not a real job and its continued existence while actual people doing actual work in TV and Movies cannot afford to live in the areas in which they are required to work is wild (hexbear.net)
submitted 22 hours ago by to c/movies@hexbear.net
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yeah man pay this succesful director/actor/some other fucking guy a couple hundred thousand not to show up, meanwhile the vfx guys had to pawn their computers

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[–] 21 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

Right, capitalism is bad. Rich people put up their (typically inherited/unearned) capital and get to extract the profit from the workers. This is how everything works under capitalism

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 21 hours ago* (3 children)

    No other forms of art does this. Music doesn't put the owner of the studios name in the songs! Well, not typically at least! The name on the painting isn't an investor! We're not pretending that poems are made by a patron.

    Yes someone getting paid for ownership is just capitalism. But separate things can be weird in different ways within capitalism

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  • [–] 11 points 19 hours ago

    another example is celebrity-owned restaurants where the celebrity name is more important than the staff. this includes restaurants where the celebrity owner is a "CHEF" but doesn't work in the restaurant (or even create the menu probably) like the Gordon Ramsey chain

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  • [–] 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

    Songs have credits too, you just don't watch them on a screen or look them up. The publishing companies, the producers. One of the most famous music producers in the world is notorious for literally doing nothing. Ceos, bosses, investors etc get the credit for shit they didn't do always, they just shove it in your face differently

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