Comments by "Maxwell Benz" (@Tential1) on "Writers Strike In DENIAL as Actors REBEL They Are Losing" video.

@penhdog2207 also, the writers literally are a handful of the 100s of people who work on a TV show or movie. You're projecting your feelings of the poor, every day worker, onto very wealthy writers who make up a FRACTION of the industry
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@beanclam if unions really want control of the company, they can take their union dues, and buy shares of the stock. That would give them control of the company. Since they're such valuable workers who do amazing jobs, the shares will go up. Why don't they take that risk? Why do NO unions take this risk? Pretty obvious reason why lol....
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@pyropulseIXXI it's worse than this. I know we actively try to promote people at work, and people don't want more responsibilities. Trying to find people to fill these roles is impossible. Everyone wants the salary but no one wants to work the insane hours. Like everyone cries about how rich Elon musk is, they don't recognize the man works 7 different jobs.... Lol. I'm in California. My neighbors all make less than ups drivers. You think any of them will do a ups driver job? No, they'll just cry about wealth inequality. People won't do the jobs necessary. They get a huge windfall of cash, do they invest it? No, they spend it, then cry when others have more.
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@penhdog2207 this isn't an INDUSTRY strike. It's a WRITERS strike. Words matter dude. If it was an industry strike, then yes, the poor runners and other people are in play. This is for WRITERS. who make easily, a quarter million to a half million, per 24 weeks of work. This stuff just doesn't get through to your heads, because you assume everyone is poor. Dude, that's not the case. They see you, struggling, and use your struggle, as a way to get a more ridiculous salary.
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@beanclam they can quit the company if Hollywood is so oppressive. Quit, start their own company, and do an AMC like public offering to raise money. You'll buy shares in their company right since you support them? You believe they will make money, so you will be making money. I wonder why they don't do this... Almost like... They don't have faith in their own talent.... In my industry, any person with talent starts their own fund and trades stock or whatever(stock is just easiest for me to explain to you.) none of these people left for a reason. And yes, I just watch YouTube. Hollywood failed. But I still buy Netflix stock. I don't like it, seems yall do. And I'll profit.
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@beanclam the ceo is chosen by shareholders to manage the company. That pay the ceo takes, if not paid, would go to shareholders. Not workers. So complaining about ceo pay makes zero sense, as this is an issue for shareholders. And as a person who owns stock, the reason I don't care about ceo pay is, it's freaking impossible to get people to work management jobs. Everyone wants management salary. No one wants to work the slave labor hours. The average tenure of a ceo is 3 years. You're the most visible person. Screw up once, and shareholders fire you. In fact, they just fire you anyway. United Healthcare ceos outpaced the s&p for 8-10 years straight. The stock did better than Warren buffett. And the ceo still was fired. You want that job? You can outperform the world's best investor, and be fired. That's the life of a ceo. So they get paid. If you want them to get paid less, you buy shares, and vote against the pay. See who shows up to run the company.... But when you own shares in a company, you'll pay someone like Elon musk whatever they ask, to get the 10x+ return he delivered on the stock.
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@Not_Always lol, why don't you discuss his points. You really think unions are always for your benefit? As a person working in big funds, I love unions personally, you guys usually have pensions you let us manage. Now, would I ever do a union? Hell no lol. The hilarious thing is. If you're a liberal, the people pushing unions on you, all aren't part of unions lol. Unions in THEORY should work. In practice? Lol.... You're playing with corporate gangsters. Instead of having to individually negotiate each worker, I just have to pay off one union boss. Lol. Come on.... Why are you guys so bad at this?
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@beanclam you act like the ceo set his own pay. Are you daft? The shareholders approve it. Dude, if we could pay the ceo less we would. You act like the shareholders want to pay the ceo. Bro, we don't want to pay ANYONE. We pay what's necessary to get the talent. If you can get ceos to sign 10 million dollar contracts instead of what they're signing now, then dude, we'll pay you 10 million a year. If you can get ceos to accept less money, start a consulting business, I will get you business nonstop. Otherwise, if a ceo wants 30 million instead of 10 million, well, just like you said, the ceo won't be freezing out in the cold if he gets 20 million less, we investors don't mind 20 million less in profits, on a couple billion in profits. Assuming you deliver, otherwise, like the average 3 year term of ceos, bye bye. Get fired, and never hired again, loser. That's why they get paid a lot and have golden parachutes. It's an end of the line job for a lot of people. If these workers think the company is so profitable, they should buy the stock too. Paramount, Disney, etc. Have done amazing.... No? They didn't? So lol, don't cry if you don't have to hold these bags. I wish workers got paid in stock, so they understood, companies and shareholders aren't always doing amazing.
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@beanclam if Elon musk does nothing all day, then you beat him. I mean, he runs 7 companies, but sure, pretend he just tweets all day. This is the problem with people like you. You have zero idea how businesses work. You want to say a ceo does nothing, OK, you start a business, do nothing, see how far you go. It's painfully obvious you've never done this before. You've never started, or ran a business with millions in revenue. The idea it just runs itself... Dude... You are insane. If you think business that easy, go invest in businesses. You'll be a trillionaire, every business you do will be profitable. Yet, MOST businesses fail. Most stocks return below the s&p. So when a person out paces the index with an amazing company, with amazing growth, you think they do nothing lol. It's wild. But of course, you can't do it yourself. Nor can you invest in the businesses that do. Nope. You know the business is broken, makes profits non stop, but, you're above making money by buying the stock... Or..it's next to impossible to pick which businesses will stay profitable....
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@beanclam if the ceo makes zero dollars it won't mean the workers will get a bonus. Jeff bezos only took a salary of 80k a year. He never took anything else. He had his 10% of the company he owned, from starting it (you sell off the company for funding at the start) and that's it. Did Jeff bezos low salary mean Amazon workers got better salaries or working conditions? No. So focusing on ceo is just stupid.
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I like unions that have pension investments I can manage. If you don't have that.... Screw off.
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@Mberalf4829 teachers unions are insane with the amount the spend. But... They let us manage their money which makes people in my industry billionaires(call my name next plix plox) so I can't hate.
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 @strategicperson95 people who support them think they're supporting the "under paid of Hollywood," and they don't understand this is a WRITERS strike. Not a HOLLYWOOD strike.
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@beanclam the video actively disproves this. Did you not watch? Dude, not every worker in America is making peanuts. This is California. 10% of California people make a half million a year. You really don't understand. The people making 20 an hour aren't the writers... They're the other staff dude. You let media trick you into thinking these are poor people. The same people, who are friends with the writers.... Lol. Don't feel bad, we were all Gullible once.
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 @razorback9999able you're on it... YouTube is the option. But that requires surviving on your own talent
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This is the same for esg. People think it's some Blackrock thing, but I work in the industry and it's just fitting in. Everyone is California or new York liberal. We manage pension money for Europe. If we don't believe esg then Europe won't give us their money. So everyone just kinda believes it. You have the true believers and people who just do it. But you believe for money. And to fit in. No point arguing with the boss on the fact that over population scares have NEVER been proven true. Whatever, just buy into the esg and buy the beneficiaries. Then, when it's found to be false, do the same thing again the other way.
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The only reason they have any support is because people think this is a Hollywood strike, benefiting the whole cast, when it's a WRITERS Strike, benefiting just a small amount of Hollywood
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Lol, yup. They always say management and shareholders do nothing, but then, when we say "OK, then quit and do your own thing" the come back asking for more of the profits, they think are there. Like, if you want the profits, buy the stock... Sometimes it goes up (Tesla Nvidia ❤) sometimes it goes down... (Disney flat for 5 years is sad.). Yet people NEVER want to risk their money on stocks. My whole liberal complex will cry about "the rich" but invest in stocks? Buy a house? Anything? No... And before you say houses are too expensive. MOVE. If you're too poor to buy a house where you live, don't live there. Not a hard concept. You're not entitled to live in California or new York.
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2:30 you show just how stupid they are lol
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