Article by Ethan Drogin, one of the writers on Netflix’ “Suits” who points out that the residuals he received for the show are minuscule and in no way match the long-lasting success of “Suits”

  • ElectricCattleman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It depends on expectations. If the carpenter is paid a good hourly wage to produce tables, regardless of whether the table gets sold, he wouldn’t expect anything.

    But if he gets paid a small amount with the promise of more depending on how much the tables sell for at auction, he would certainly be angry if he found out that his tables were very popular, going for hundreds of thousands of dollars per table, and he was given a few extra hundred dollars total.

    Though even in the first case, if the carpenter found out his tables were popular and being sold for huge amounts of money, he might not ask for more for previous tables, but wouldn’t be out of line to ask for a raise!